Criticals

Starchief - Sanctuary
Starchief - Sanctuary Posts: 606 Arc User
edited December 2009 in General Discussion
just real quick, if your critical percentage is 10% does that mean that one out of every ten strikes will be a critical? Or is there some crazy formula that comes into play here?
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  • RawrzWolf - Sanctuary
    RawrzWolf - Sanctuary Posts: 371 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    If your Crit rate = 10% then your hits have a 1/10 chance of doing Double damage.

    Its randomized.
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  • Seth_the_Bum - Lost City
    Seth_the_Bum - Lost City Posts: 18 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    I'm fairly certain that's the case yes, but I couldn't tell you if there are any other hidden factors. What I'd like to know is if healing spells can possibly crit or not. As they amount healed does not show up in the Damage or Combat chat types, one would have to do quite a bit of heal-spam testing to find anything conclusive... something I haven't had the patience to try myself.
  • Starchief - Sanctuary
    Starchief - Sanctuary Posts: 606 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    RawrzWolf - Sanctuary wrote: »
    If your Crit rate = 10% then your hits have a 1/10 chance of doing Double damage.

    Its randomized.

    if its 1/10 then it isnt randomized
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  • Taranta - Dreamweaver
    Taranta - Dreamweaver Posts: 387 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Starchief - Sanctuary wrote: »
    if its 1/10 then it isnt randomized

    1/10 is an average. If you were to strike 100 times, there is a high probability that you would crit. 10 times. This, however, doesn't directly correlate to 1 out of every 10 hits being a critical. You tend to get...clusters. You may see sections where 4/10 hits is a critical, and then you go back to not getting any.

    The code for the randomization in this game is strange, as it seems to group things, even though it's supposed to be random. It also, unfortunately, seems to make up for good luck (lots of criticals) with stretches of bad luck (no criticals at all). So it is random...in a sense.
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  • Pressa - Heavens Tear
    Pressa - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,287 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    honestly its not quite so much when it comes to crits it seems after 5% points start being more effective and after 25% points start becoming less effective. This of course with every added crit most often you will find with a 10% crit you will crit far more often then 10 out of every 100 hits more like 20 out of 100 and 20 is more like 30 out of 100 or so it seems.

    Its based on a random number generator from 1-100 if it falls in the number then you crit if it doesn't you don't. Crits tend to fall into that easier for archers and less so for wizards even if they have the same crit rate. I do think level has to do with that as well the higher you are the more chance you get too. But the last part is simply speculation the random number thing is true thats how PW figures it out and its all calculated server side too which is why damage hacks don't work on this game. (xP just a fyi)
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