Jewels with ed% AND min or max (or both) are sadly affected by a bug that prevents them from being used in off-weapon gear. There are some very niche exceptions to this rule for min dmg affix, but they mostly apply to LLD and they’re not optimal
read below if you're interested in knowing why a lot of people use ed/min dmg jwls in their storms
Quote (Koston @ Sep 20 2022 02:33am)
Let’s say you are using a weapon that does 150-400 damage. Let’s also say that, from your gear, skills, etc., you have 1000% ED. That turns into (150 * 11) - (400 * 11), or 1650-4520 damage. Let’s now say you socket a 30 ED/10 minimum damage jewel into your pelt - now you have 160 minimum damage with 1000% ED and 400 maximum damage with 1030% ED, which translates into 1760-4520 damage. Let’s compare this to a jewel with just 30 ED (we won’t assume other stats here but just imagine some), which would give you 1695-4520 damage. This is objectively worse than the 30ED/10 minimum damage jewel. Well, what about a 40ED/15 maximum jewel? Is that bugged? Yes, ED and maximum damage on the same jewel, unlike minimum damage, is bugged and should be avoided. A 40ED/15 maximum damage jewel, for example, would give us (150 * 11.4) - (415 * 11) damage, which is 1710-4565. 1760-4520 damage (from a 30ED/10 min jewel) is better overall than 1710-4565 (from a 40/15max), even if it is just by 5 average damage. If the bug was fixed by Blizzard, the 40/15max jewel would turn our damage into 1710-4731, but the bug may not be fixed anytime soon.
Having ED + minimum damage on the same jewel is bad, though, if you plan on using a weapon with high minimum damage. This is because adding more minimum damage when you already have high minimum damage will result in significant diminishing returns. At this point, just having the plain ED jewel is more beneficial, but this mostly applies to weapons like Grief and legendary mallets. We are spending time discussing this here because wolf druids often use weapons with lower minimum damage where the bug would no longer really apply in the way people think it would. This means jewels like the one below are very good and should not be disregarded. Since this applies to any melee build using a low minimum damage weapon, it would also be nice if the melee community more broadly had this information.
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