The sorc skill Precision Magic says:
Your Lucky Hit Effect Chance is increased by up to +5%/+10%/+15%.
How is it intended to work, it sounds like it would add +5%/+10%/+15% to your lucky hit modifier.
But what it actually does is to add +5%/+10%/+15% of the skills lucky hit possibility.
So Charged bolts that has a 20% base lucky hit chance, goes to 21%/22%/23%.
Ball lightning that has a 5% base lucky hit, goes to 5.25%/5.5%/5.75%
And this is very confusing and makes the skill pretty much useless for lightning sorcs.
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Sorcs have great lucky hit synergy. LH is calculated by hit, not cast (excepting conjurations which are weird.) So an Ice Shards cast has 5x16% chance to proc on a single cast. Going to 18% means almost every cast will proc a lucky hit. Getting to +30% lucky hit without paragon boards is pretty trivial for a sorc meaning you will almost always proc avalanche on each of your casts of shards, especially on multiple enemies.
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Well it has 5x16% chance to get a roll for a lucky hit. The actual chance depends on the effect chance. But yes with so many hits even 5% chance is pretty big.
The topic was about the skill “Precision Magic” and how it works for a lightning sorc.
Even if you have several items that gives “+luckly hit”, let’s say you have:
Ring: +5%
Ring: +5%
Amulet: +7.5%
Weapon: +7.5%
Focus: +5%
Helm: +5%
Armour: +5%
Gloves: +5%
Boots: +5%
Total of: +50% from items
Precision Magic +15%
This gives a total bonus of:
65%
This would result in:
Charged bolt: 201.65 = 33% Lucky Hit, increment of 13%
Ball lignting: 51.65 = 8.25% Lucky Hit, increment of 3.25%
Chain Lightning: 25*1.65 = 41.25% Lucky Hit, increment of 16.25%
Then take into account of what you give up to get this, at least 3 skill points (you might also want to put some in Lucky Hit effects, som probably more like 9 skill points).
1 effect of each item slot, that could give you for example:
24% more armour
120% more dmg damage (like dmg to close)
or if you could get +crit chance for all the items insted and get 65% higher crit chance and crit all day long…
For an ice sorc some might make sense, but for lightning sorc it does not seem worth it at all.