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jornado
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No, the question itself is not critical, rather it has to do with the way cries are rolled in STO.
As a veteran of many MMOs and RPGs going back to AD&D, I have seen critical hit rolls work in one of several ways, two of which are the most common, and I'm just wondering which way STO handles it - this may have been answered in some mechanics thread at some point, but I figure it's more efficient to get the info from someone who knows rather than spend four hours wading through old meta threads.
My questions is as follows:
Is critical chance part of to-hit rolls, or is it rolled separately after the to-hit. i.e. if one theoretically had 100% crit chance, would you also have a 100% hit chance? I have played other MMOs where CrtH % was significantly more important than attack rating vs. defense simply because a crit was rolled as part of the to-hit (i.e. rolling a "natural 20" in D&D 2E), and others where crit chance means nothing unless you have the attack rating to actually hit the target, since it was a separate roll.
It's not really critical to me (pun, I apologize), more just as a curiosity, a little since more and more CritH items keep getting in game, but there are no direct CritH protections (e.g. a console that gives a -% chance for you to be critted).
If anyone knows off the top of their head, I'd be much obliged.
As a veteran of many MMOs and RPGs going back to AD&D, I have seen critical hit rolls work in one of several ways, two of which are the most common, and I'm just wondering which way STO handles it - this may have been answered in some mechanics thread at some point, but I figure it's more efficient to get the info from someone who knows rather than spend four hours wading through old meta threads.
My questions is as follows:
Is critical chance part of to-hit rolls, or is it rolled separately after the to-hit. i.e. if one theoretically had 100% crit chance, would you also have a 100% hit chance? I have played other MMOs where CrtH % was significantly more important than attack rating vs. defense simply because a crit was rolled as part of the to-hit (i.e. rolling a "natural 20" in D&D 2E), and others where crit chance means nothing unless you have the attack rating to actually hit the target, since it was a separate roll.
It's not really critical to me (pun, I apologize), more just as a curiosity, a little since more and more CritH items keep getting in game, but there are no direct CritH protections (e.g. a console that gives a -% chance for you to be critted).
If anyone knows off the top of their head, I'd be much obliged.
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One to hit and one to crit.
Having overcome defense through accuracy, your suppose to overflow into crith/critd.
This overflow is currently bugged, but that is how its designed..
Thus why I'm quite sure of the double roll
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