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Critical help

AuthorMessage
Survivor
Dec 20, 2008
1
Hi, I have a question about critical. Can you get critical every time? My critical rating is over 100, does that have anything to do with it? I have know idea. Please help!!!

Survivor
Feb 20, 2011
29
Critical is rare you see. You should go test it on some enemies and see for your self but beware if you fight higher lvl enemies they could have a chance to block your critical!

Good luck!
Ashley Anglebreeze~

Adherent
May 20, 2010
2902
It's not a percentage, it's a number. The PvP players could tell you how the number correlates to the percentage, but my understanding is that you can't ever get 100% Critical.

Survivor
Apr 09, 2011
8
Mastermind
Jun 25, 2009
312
Nope, You only get the critical from the critical range witch I guess is 100 in your case would be like 1 in 10.

Archon
Oct 24, 2010
4952
donnersaurus wrote:
Hi, I have a question about critical. Can you get critical every time? My critical rating is over 100, does that have anything to do with it? I have know idea. Please help!!!

In theory, you probably could get critical every time, but in reality, no. My critical rating for my Ice wizard is 60% but I pull critical a lot less than that.

Astrologist
Aug 21, 2009
1205
I sometimes wonder if the programmers don't sometimes mess with the critical chance some players have. I've noticed my critical hits have gone way down since I've played in PvP, and I mean all of a sudden like and not come back like they had been. Then you think perhaps it is just you and then you play with others in the game with the same school and same critical chance you have and notice that they hit it way more than you do.

Survivor
Feb 13, 2010
3
I think if you actually look at your critical stats and hover over them it actually tells you the real percentage you are working at!!

I have like 53 or something and it says my percentage is only 12%!!

This makes it 12/53= 0.226...

Which means every point is only worth 0.226% rating!!!!

hope that helps, :D

Roryj22

Defender
Oct 31, 2009
175
I think they need to replace the rating with your percentage. It makes it easier to read and understand IMO.

Even with a rating of 120 that is only a 20% chance or something. Rating gives you kind of false impression you're better than you really are.

Geographer
Aug 28, 2010
958
pigz456 wrote:
I think it goes up to a rating of 500, not 100. :(


This is correct, the max number is just around 500, so if you had a 60, to calculate the percentage you would do this:
(60 * 100) / 500 = the percentage of 12% (1 in 8.333 chance of going crit).

With the example that started this, of 100 it would be,
(100 * 100) / 500 = percentage of 20% or a 1 in 5 chance you will go crit.

And if you had a 120 rating, it would be,
(120 * 100) / 500 = 24%, real close to 1 crit every four times.

Joe.