Acrid and crit items

[Crash]

So how does crit work for acrid? Does it only work for the initial hit? If you crit the hit, will it also crit the poison/blight ticks? Clearly it doesn't proc on each individual tick.

So based on that, is crit even good for him? I usually love crit builds, but for that guy it doesn't seem really worth it.

[Stardust Momth]

Only the initial hit of Acrid's skills will crit. The poison can't crit or proc on-hit effects, and as far as I'm aware blight is no different. Crit is a bit less effective on Acrid because of this, but I wouldn't call it useless. Crit is still a direct boost to damage output and for weaker enemies it can often make the initial hit from Epidemic just directly kill on its own. If you really like crit (works great with on-hit too) you can always pick up Visions of Heresy from the lunar shop which gives you an excellent ranged option instead of your claws.

Personally I find on-hit to be most effective on Acrid, largely because the procs from items can easily help finish off weakened enemies, and things like the bleed from Tri-Tip Dagger can nullify the downside of standard poison being unable to kill on its own. Also of note is that poison damage can kill elites via Old Guillotine, and this pairs very well with Will-'o-the-wisp to clear crowds.

Hope this helps :D

[Edifier]

Stack those Magazines and then spam the second ability.

Then try and get all status items you can along with the mask that gives you extra damage on enemies that have 4 debuffs.

Because relying only on the poison spread for Acrid isn't gonna work late game.

So he can very well be a crit build.