Critical strike chance on items and idols.

[Ban885]

I'm sure that the critical strike chances on items are miss leading for various reasons.

I have an idol for my marksmen that increases that critical chance by 60 Percent, i look on the character sheet but it only increases it by like 4 percent.

does the increase critical strikes go based off how my total critical chance you have ?

like say you have 20% critical chance its only gonna add like 60% of you total critical chance will only be about 12% increase.

[kekkuli]

Yes increases are added on your base crit value which is 5%, but can be improved by some skills/items etc.

[andrew.thiele]

As Kekkuli mentions, Critical Strike Chance has a default value of 5% and all increases to it are multiplied against it.

Say you a weapon with an affix that reads "40% Increased Critical Strike Chance", then your new critical strike chance is 5x1.4=7. So you now have 7% Critical Strike Chance.

There are some items that increase the base Critical Strike Chance value. These will look like "+5% Critical Strike Chance" and are additive with that default value of 5%. So you would now have 5+5=10, so 10%...and then if you still had that 40% Increased Critical Strike Chance then it'd be 10x1.4=14 or 14% Critical Strike Chance.

Lastly, all stats displayed in the Character screen are global stats, so stats that affect only a certain skill will not be shown here.

[andrew.thiele]

I should also note that this, and much..much more, is explained in the in-game Game Guide by pressing the [G] key. It's an extremely useful resource.

[Ban885]

Originally posted by andrew.thiele:

I should also note that this, and much..much more, is explained in the in-game Game Guide by pressing the [G] key. It's an extremely useful resource.

thank you a million I've been playing this game since March 2020 love the game so far!

[Fargol]

I was about to post the same. Up until now I've not focused at all on Crit, and when I realized that putting 3 points into Precision (Flurry) did absolutely nothing. Stayed firm at 5%. So 6% of that (3 pts) increases it by 0.3% which is pointless. I suppose if I was at 5.3 or higher it would bump me up to 6% via rounding, but again, pointless.

I do understand there are items that do much more (got a sword that did 31% and bumped it up to 7%) but why on Earth would you put any points into Precision?!?

[andrew.thiele]

Originally posted by thunda:

Remember, global critical strike chance only shows global stats from your gear and passives. It doesn't consider skills at all. So some skills will have more crit chance than shown in the stats.

First, just an addendum to the above quote: The character sheet will also display the impact of skill nodes that provide global stats or buffs when activated. These are often temporary so you'd have to have the character sheet open to see the changes.

But this is an important note. The character sheet ONLY shows your global stats. So if a skill has nodes that increase only that skills critical strike chance than you won't see that reflected in your character sheet because it's not a global increase to all your stats.

Until the Tooltip DPS arrives (which will likely display this type of information) you'll have to do the math yourself for each skill.

[Fargol]

@thunda

Thank you, I finally get it.

Mostly my problem was that I can't seem to get through my thick skull that the numbers in the Character Sheet reflect global values, whereas skills like Precision only affect the skill whose tree they are in.