Q about Critical Hits

BlahGMan

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2005

somewhere

Archangels Of Fate

E/Me

Whats the base percentage for crit hits? I was wondering this after i used crit. eye with a 5 in crit hits and was getting one about every other hit

sorry if this has been asked before, but i was wondering

NatalieD

NatalieD

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Depends on your Dagger Mastery. If you have 16 DM, it's roughly 20%.

Yukito Kunisaki

Yukito Kunisaki

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

Chicago, IL

W/N

actually, dagger mastery more affects your double strikes than your critical strikes according to description...

Sabe

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Project Teamwork [ptw]

Mo/

How can you tell you have hit with a critical hit?

Xasew

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Storm Bearers[SB]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabe
How can you tell you have hit with a critical hit? It's quite easy, crits are alot higher than the highest non-crit you can make, so you should be able to figure it out. Also, if someone's running away from you, it's automatically a critical hit.
Dagger Mastery affects you chance to land a double-strike and a critical hit, I think. Critical Strikes only affects your critical hits.
Crits are based on this:
Maximum dmg and +4 in your weapon attribute.

Note: Not sure on everything I wrote, some of it might be just stuff I remembered wrong.

Yukito Kunisaki

Yukito Kunisaki

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

Chicago, IL

W/N

From the mechanics in the guides [unless changed/altered/updated/sexed/raped/etc.] a crit is treated like this:

maximum weapon damage
weapon stat % 100% @ 12 to 115% at 16 I think
and the enemy's AL -20% [that's right, not -20AL, -20% AL]

You'll more easily notice crits vs. a high armor type than a squishy type and yes, they hurt...

fallot

I'm the king

Join Date: Nov 2005

Aussie Trolling Crew: Grand Phallus and Chairman Pro Tempore

Edit: Posted the wrong thing in the wrong place.

Katari

Katari

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Upstate

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by fallot
Its 2% per attribute level of DM which equals 16x2 = 32% chance to double strike. Double Strike =/= Crtical Hit

The base chance crit with a dagger *should* be the same as the base chance to crit with other weapons ([email protected] should crit as often as [email protected], ignoring other crit-boosting mods). Level difference does effect critical rate, but armor level does not. Ensign's damage article should still be relevent.

fallot

I'm the king

Join Date: Nov 2005

Aussie Trolling Crew: Grand Phallus and Chairman Pro Tempore

Quote:
Originally Posted by Katari
Double Strike =/= Crtical Hit Yeah, I know. Its 3:00 AM and you caught me before I realized my mistake. I was reading NatlieD's (I think) post about Frenzy and how Double Strikes make up for a lack of IAS, got confused.