What is critical damage?

[Heaven has even sheep spread]

When an attack crit, how much more damage does it do?

[Pure_Poetry]

AFAIK x2 (+/- modifiers from skills or items)

[TheGreenGuy]

What Pure_Poetry says but I've been contemplating whether to reduce it to 150% to make it less violatile.

[Pure_Poetry]

I'd tend to agree to make it 150% vs 200% to reduce standard deviation. It would probably require other small changes here and there for overall balance reasons however.

There's also the scorechecks that'd require a standard deviation reduction imho. I once suggested to apply reduced modifiers (like 50% of attribute instead of 100%) to make it less volatile, especially as the game progresses, as a d20 is too small compared to 80 endgame attributes to have a reliable scorechecks table. New scorechecks would then have to be changed to [scorechecks/2+10] (while adding a difficulty modifiers on those in the diff settings so that one can avoid having them 95% successful by day 50 ;-))

[Heaven has even sheep spread]

I think 200% is a bit volatile too. If crit dmg is reduced to 150% standard, it would be ideal if we get sources of crit dmg, for crit builds. It'd more work to make. But I think it'd be a better system.

If standard crit dmg is less, maybe we could have more enemies specialized in crit and to counter, for some tank skills to have some crit resist (either to reduce dmg or to reduce rate, probably reduce dmg) and crit resist aura.

[TheGreenGuy]

It has already been reduced to 150%,

[Heaven has even sheep spread]

I see. Thank you for the quick updates as usual.

Would crit reliant characters such as Daryl, Misasa need a buff to restore their viability, former glory respectively?

[TheGreenGuy]

I don't think it's necessary. Critical mastery has already been buffed from 30% more damage to 50% more damage, so a crit-focused build should still be fine.