Question Regarding Skill Crit Mechanics

Is there any known modifier for skill crits (dex, strength, ect). Also do focus/wm/might/haste/prophecy's/ect affect skill crits.

I have heard that it is affected by strength. Mystryl if this is accurate can you comment on it?

Also are skill crits/ lethal strikes more likely from certain angles (aka the back).

Please no speculations. I am looking for people that have either heavily tested it while changing modifiers and the only one i know that does this is diego and small from blah.

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its DEX that affects crit rates, not strength. And spells such as focus and death whisper increase crit rate/amount.

Melee Skill crits arent affected by any STAT as far as I know. It just has a fixed amount of Critchance. Buffs like Focus, Song of Hunter, CoV dont change this. Neither does Crit damage affecting buffs increase the damage.

Melee Skill crits arent affected by any STAT as far as I know. It just has a fixed amount of Critchance. Buffs like Focus, Song of Hunter, CoV dont change this. Neither does Crit damage affecting buffs increase the damage.

yeah i tend to agree ald
thing is though certain skills just crit more often

... Neither does Crit damage affecting buffs increase the damage.

I disagree. Several TH skills are crits. When they land it actually says "Critical Hit". When a BD is in party dancing, damage done is about double. Once, with high level buffs and a BD I was occasionally hitting for 4300 at level 45. After playing a dwarf for years, I was floored. :D

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... Neither does Crit damage affecting buffs increase the damage.



I disagree. Several TH skills are crits. When they land it actually says "Critical Hit". When a BD is in party dancing, damage done is about double. Once, with high level buffs and a BD I was occasionally hitting for 4300 at level 45. After playing a dwarf for years, I was floored.

well yeah dagger skills might be different
when the average skill crits it doesnt say anything besides "you hit for x damage" usually followed my "omg that dorf just hit me for 1k damage, they should nerf you guys"

also all the cool stuff seems to effect skill crits just like regular crits
i have a screen shot somewhere of me hitting a cata mob for 3.5k damage with armor crush, that required holy weapon zerk and POF

as far as i can see focus doesnt effect crit rate

Dagger sklls are crits, but also have the chance of critting. Under equal conditions a backstab can hit for 1600 or 3200 if the skill crits(both say critical hit). Lethal Strike is a whole diferent thing as well.

has anyone done testing if WM affects physical skill crits. I know everyone is going to jump down my throat over this one and say of course WM doesnt make your skill crit more thats as stupid as mages in c2 using focus thinking it increased magic crit rate. What about valakas necklace. Does this affect skill crit or only magical. I have a hard time believe physical skill crits defined as x2 damage is not modified by anything in game. All classes dont crit equally or do they. I know all skills don't crit the same amount or at least they don't appear too.

My magical lethal strikes are even affected by attacking behind a mob. I'd definately say there is probably something to the idea.

To my knowledge, nothing affects the sucsess rate or power of skills' criticals. One can observe some significant difference only if the skill critical coincides with a physical critical (which is affected by buffs/toggles). Then the damage can be greatly increased.