(Question) 25% increased critical hit chance

[GruntZone360]

So my friend says "25% increased critical hit chance takes base crit chance and multi's it by 25%"

And I think that's dumb. It doesn't say that anywhere in the game. I'm trying to see where the passives actually affect my weapon. Because hitting the arrow to inspect the ability and see the crit chance of it. Doesn't change/affect it at all.

Another question: Why does the damage number (DPS 291) (etc) by the ability go up even though the attack damage on the weapon isn't an element I use?

[SaucySanders]

If you hold alt it focuses the window independent of your mouse movement. Hovering over words with dotted lines below them opens a pop-up dialogue that explains things; this is to say that it does in fact say what your friend told you in-game.

There are 'large node' passives on the skill tree that increase base critical chance. When they do, it is explicitly mentioned. It doesn't make sense that you can't see a change in the critical chance/critical damage after changing your build, unless you're checking your basic attack after increasing your spell critical only or something similar.

[GruntZone360]

Originally posted by SaucySanders:

If you hold alt it focuses the window independent of your mouse movement. Hovering over words with dotted lines below them opens a pop-up dialogue that explains things; this is to say that it does in fact say what your friend told you in-game.

There are 'large node' passives on the skill tree that increase base critical chance. When they do, it is explicitly mentioned. It doesn't make sense that you can't see a change in the critical chance/critical damage after changing your build, unless you're checking your basic attack after increasing your spell critical only or something similar.

Thanks~

Is there a way to see the overall stats? The character screen doesn't show crit chance/etc

[H.B. Pierbattista Pizzaballa]

Your crit chance is linked to your weapon if you're using attacks, or to each individual spell if you're using those. Clicking the arrow next to the dps will open all the details and show you the your crit chance and damage bonus.

For your second question, if your weapon has any kind of elemental attack damage it will be used no matter what. It's just a part of the weapon stats and will be included in dps.