Piercing Wind, what is the difference to normal crit traits?

[Schizophriend]

Piercing Wind used to give you additional Pierce, which is now a part from the Force trait.

Now, it gives you something like, base crit or something? Can someone explain to me what the difference is to the normal crit traits? Or is it like, a combination between crit chance and crit damage?
I don't quite understand it

[Nine]

Bonuses like piercing wind are additive with to the base value of the hero's crit damage. 40% crit damage would become 50% for example assuming no other modifiers. Effects with % increases act as multipliers to that base value.

[Ulyaoth]

Piercing wind is an additvie flat base value, that gets addet on top of your critical damage bonus.
In comparison, Ruthlessness is a multiplicative value, that kicks in AFTER all base values are addet together.
example:
50% base crit bonus + 100% crit bonus =
50 + (50 x 1) = 100% crit bonus
50% base crit bonus + 0.10 base crit Bonus (Piercing Wind) =
60 + (60 x 1) = 120%
So awlays additive first, then multiplicative.

[Schizophriend]

Originally posted by Ulyaoth:

Piercing wind is an additvie flat base value, that gets addet on top of your critical damage bonus.
In comparison, Ruthlessness is a multiplicative value, that kicks in AFTER all base values are addet together.
example:
50% base crit bonus + 100% crit bonus =
50 + (50 x 1) = 100% crit bonus
50% base crit bonus + 0.10 base crit Bonus (Piercing Wind) =
60 + (60 x 1) = 120%
So awlays additive first, then multiplicative.

Originally posted by Nine:

Bonuses like piercing wind are additive with to the base value of the hero's crit damage. 40% crit damage would become 50% for example assuming no other modifiers. Effects with % increases act as multipliers to that base value.

Ah thanks both of you, so it's just a calculation thing. Already figured it would be something like that. So it sounds like maxing Piercing Wind before Cunning Technique works better.

[Ulyaoth]

Originally posted by Schizophriend:

Ah thanks both of you, so it's just a calculation thing. Already figured it would be something like that. So it sounds like maxing Piercing Wind before Cunning Technique works better.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3034282250
Check the Value calculation at the bottom, if you like.