What secondary stats would be good to go for as a Damage dealer mainly speaking about gems in gear here. Lets say I have a weapon with 2 sockets, and I have a choice of +1 skill gem to my strongest skill, or one of the more common red green or yellow gems for increased damage critical rate and critical attack, would it be better to take that +1 to skill level over the others if it is possible, or would I want to take +attack/crit rate/ crit damage instead? I would assume the +1 would be better in the long run, but at the moment I don’t have one to benefit my class so would I be better off taking a green gem yellow gem or a red gem in its place?
Crit rate is usually best, since it boosts all your skills and normal attacks. But it needs to be at a decent level.
In your eyes what is “decent” for crit rate?
It depends on your level, below 75/120 wouldn’t care to use any (you can skip all the way up to 220 if you want to) - 120-220 lvl 3-5 is ok, 200+ should be 5+ (as high as you can get them to)
Okay so in my situation I would probably want a rank 3-5 green then. I was mainly wondering if the crit rate would be more valuable than the crit attack or maximum attack gems at the same rank, ill see how the green one goes though.
Generally the crit rate gems are most effective. if however you are built with pure / high dex then a max attack / crit attack one is more useful. If you go pure str / high str then the crit rate one is super useful as it allows you to capitalize on the str.
Right now my str/dex are about the same, about 10 points difference maybe, but my crit attack is a bit higher than crit rate so ill go with a green gem at some point. or 2 if the cost isnt that bad.
Yeah go with the crit rates then, the way the crit chance formula works you need an increasingly larger amount of crit rate as your level increases. Depending on ur build you can also then focus more of your points into str. I believe a lvl 5 green gem in the main weapon gives 22 crit rate.