Critical hit - Revision history

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Vanadin: /* Raising Damage Values */

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‎Raising Damage Values

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‎Balancing CHD versus CHC

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‎Critical Hits in Diablo III

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 ==Critical Hit Terms==
-There are a few crit hit related gameplay terms that are used as variables on [[item]]s, [[skill]]s and other gameplay effects. It's important to know the difference between them: See the [[CC]] and [[CD]] articles for much more detail on those functions.
+[[File:Crits.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Crits displayed in yellow text.]]
 * '''Critical Hit''' / '''Crit''' - The actual event when a critical hit lands. Increased damage and an added effect, depending on the school of damage used.
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 ==Critical Hits in Diablo III==
-[[File:Crits.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Crits displayed in yellow text.]]
 When the game was first announced in 2008, it was revealed that crits would have dealt very different effects depending on their elemental damage type. This feature was [[dumbed down|removed during development]], but the original plan went as follows:
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 * '''Toxic Damage:''' Critical hits from toxic (poison) damage had an unknown bonus. Extra damage over time?
-These functions were removed along with the entire system of elemental damage from characters, and all critical hits became hits that did (at their base) 150% extra damage. There are no special secondary effects (other than visual) to critical hits in Diablo III.
+These functions were removed along with the entire system of elemental damage from characters, and all critical hits became hits that added (at base) 50% damage. There are no special secondary effects (other than visual) to critical hits in Diablo III, though many skills trigger [[procs]] when crits are scored.
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 ==Development Archives==
-The following is information archived from when Diablo III was in development. The information is not current, but it is retained for historical value. It is worth noting that shattering of a frozen monster still occurs in the game, apropos to what happened in D2.
+<font color="#FF0000">The following is information archived from when Diablo III was in development. The information is not current, but it is retained for historical value. It is worth noting that shattering of a frozen monster still occurs in the game, apropos to what happened in D2.</font>
 [[Image:Critical-hit1.jpg|frame|Critical hit reduces a monster to a puddle.]]
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 [[Monster]]s that die to a critical hit get a special "critical death" animation, which is extra gory. A few examples can be seen in screenshots on this page. The monsters literally explode, leaving chunks of themselves scattered across the ground. These animations are customized for whatever type of damage killed them; the chunks have flames licking across them from fire damage, sparks and arcs from lightning, etc. Physical damage critical deaths tend to leave huge slicks of blood, and give a battlefield a lovely post-massacre patina.
 These were demonstrated during a panel at [[BlizzCon 2008]], an excerpt from which [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41498.html can be seen here].
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 ===Barbarian===
 The [[Barbarian]] has a number of skills that increase the % damage of his critical hit, and a few interesting skills that boost other properties (such as fury generation rate and defense) when he scores critical hits. There aren't any known skills (yet) that increase his chances to score critical hits, though.

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 '''Critical hits''' are special types of hits dealt to [[monster]]s (and other players in [[PVP]]). Monsters that die from critical hits usually explode in an especially gruesome [[Death#Special_Death_Animations|death animation]], adding visual fun to the killing bonuses, or are otherwise blasted with the full force of the [[physics]] system, sending them caroming overhead and out of the camera's view.
-Critical hits deal a base 50% bonus damage in Diablo 3. The damage '''''and''''' the percent change of scoring a critical hit can both be increased by various skills and equipment. <ref> {{cite web | url = http://blues.incgamers.com/Posts/1/1/4/10/7462/deadly-strikecritical-strike#postId_20442 | title = Bashiok on Critical Hits | accessdate = 2010-08-24 | quote = We have Critical Strikes. When you crit it does 50% more damage. Your chance to crit and increase above the 50% are both variable with skills, items, etc.}}</ref>
+Crits are very important in Diablo 3, and using skills and especially items to raise a character's [[critical hit chance]] (CC) and [[critical hit damage]] (CD) is the best way to increase character damage and performance.  Landing crits is also essential to trigger [[procs]] in many skills. Most of the best [[builds]] in Diablo 3 require a fairly high critical hit chance in order to keep the procs functioning to restore resource, reduce cooldowns, heal, and more.
 ==Critical Hit Terms==
-There are a few crit hit related gameplay terms that are used as variables on [[item]]s, [[skill]]s and other gameplay effects. It's important to know the difference between them:
+There are a few crit hit related gameplay terms that are used as variables on [[item]]s, [[skill]]s and other gameplay effects. It's important to know the difference between them: See the [[CC]] and [[CD]] articles for much more detail on those functions.
 * '''Critical Hit''' / '''Crit''' - The actual event when a critical hit lands. Increased damage and an added effect, depending on the school of damage used.
-* '''Critical Hit Chance''' / '''Crit Chance''' - Chance of landing a critical strike.
+* '''[[Critical Hit Chance]]''' / '''Crit Chance''' - Chance of landing a critical strike.
-* '''Critical Hit Damage''' / '''Crit Damage''' - The actual damage dealt when a Critical Hit has landed.
+* '''[[Critical Hit Damage]]''' / '''Crit Damage''' - The actual damage dealt when a Critical Hit has landed.
 ==Critical Hits in Diablo III==
 [[File:Crits.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Crits displayed in yellow text.]]
-When the game was first announced in 2008, it was revealed that crits would have a varying effect. In the early developmental phase, they were as following:
+When the game was first announced in 2008, it was revealed that crits would have dealt very different effects depending on their elemental damage type. This feature was [[dumbed down|removed during development]], but the original plan went as follows:
-* '''Physical Damage: '''Deals double damage. Might also knockback, but not confirmed.
+* '''Physical Damage: '''Deals double damage and possibly [[knockback]].
 * '''Arcane Damage:''' Critical hits from arcane damage silence targets for 4 secs. (Silenced targets can not cast some spells, such as a [[Skeletal Summoner]] or [[Goatman Shaman]] resurrecting fallen minions.)
 * '''Cold Damage: '''Critical hits from cold damage freeze targets for 2 seconds.
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 * '''Toxic Damage:''' Critical hits from toxic (poison) damage had an unknown bonus. Extra damage over time?
-However, this entire system was scrapped, and critical hits became hits that did (at their base) 150% extra damage. There are no special secondary effects to critical hits in Diablo III, as was planned. Why these were removed is anyone's guess, as it makes elemental damage rather homogeneous on gear, although cold damage does still [[slow]] monster movement speed momentarily.
+These functions were removed along with the entire system of elemental damage from characters, and all critical hits became hits that did (at their base) 150% extra damage. There are no special secondary effects (other than visual) to critical hits in Diablo III.
-As shown to the right (if the player chooses to display them on the [[interface]]), critical hits are displayed in large yellow numbers which float above the [[monster]] after they take a crit.
 ===Crit Damage and Chance===
 [[File:CHD.jpg|left|thumb|300px|CHD raised through a [[weapon]] and [[gem]].]]
 Critical Hit Chance ('''CHC''') and Critical Hit Damage ('''CHD''') can be raised in a number of ways.
 First and foremost is from items. Many items will grant the player an increased chance to crit. These incremental increases are percentage-based, but also a flat value. So if a player has 5% chance to crit, and they get an [[amulet]] that offers an additional 5% chance to crit, their overall chance to crit will be 10%. CHC is, then, addititive and not multiplicative.
-{{clear|both}}
 ===Raising Damage Values===
-Values for CHD are raised through items, [[skill]]s, and [[passive]] abilities.
+Values for Critical Hit Damage are raised through items, [[skill]]s, and [[passive]] abilities. CD can roll [[affix]]es on specific item types, being the following:
 * 1-handed weapons.
 * 2-handed weapons.
 * Gloves
 * Rings
 * Amulets
-* [[Follower]] Specials
+* [[Follower]] Specials. (Benefit only the Follower.)
-* Certain [[Legendary]] items in odd slots.
+* Certain [[Legendary]] items in other item slots.
-CHC can be found on the following items:
+Critical Hit Chance can be found on the following items:
 * Bracers
-* Helm
+* Helms
-* Ring
+* Rings
-* Glove
+* Gloves
-* Amulet
+* Amulets
 * Off-Hand items (such as a [[shield]] or [[mojo]])
 * Certain [[Legendary]] items in odd slots.
-Many [[skill]]s and [[passive]] abilities also add relevant bonuses, such as (for CHC) the [[Barbarian]] passive [[Weapons Master]] will increase CHC by 10% when wielding an axe. Similarly, the [[Demon Hunter]] passive [[Archery]] adds 50% CHD when wielding a [[crossbow]], but adds 10% CHC when wielding a [[hand crossbow]].
+Many [[skill]]s and [[passive]] abilities also add relevant bonuses, such as (for CHC) the [[Barbarian]] passive [[Weapons Master]] will increase CHC by 10% when wielding an axe. Similarly, the [[Demon Hunter]] passive [[Archery]] adds 50% CHD when wielding a [[crossbow]], but adds 10% CHC when wielding a [[hand crossbow]]. These and other such passives are among the most popular in the game.
 ===Balancing CHD versus CHC===
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 * Adding 10% CHD (an increase of 1/6 over previous CHD): 0.7 * 0.25 = '''17.5%''' extra damage
 * Adding 5% CHC (an increase of 1/5 over previous CHC): 0.6 * 0.3 = '''18%''' extra damage
-Adding 5% CHC is preferable in this case.
+Adding 5% CHC is preferable in this case. (Bear in mind that many [[procs]] require critical hit chance to function, which sets a minimum CC that is effective '''''required''''' for that build to function. This varies by the build, but is generally at least 30-35% and may be considerably higher.)
 ==Development Archives==
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 The basic critical hit bonus is still +100% damage, but various skills increase the damage of critical hits, while others increase the odds of critical hits scoring, or cause other effects to trigger when a critical hit is scored. How these will all interact remains to be seen.
 ===Critical Deaths===

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 * Certain [[Legendary]] items in odd slots.
-In addition, when an [[Emerald]] is socketed into a weapon (be it one or two-handed), then the player will also gain additional CHD, varying by the quality/rank of the gem.
+In addition, socketing any weapon with an [[Emerald]] adds additional CHD, ranging from 10% for a Chipped gem to 100% for a Radiant Star gem.
 CHC can be found on the following items:
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 * Certain [[Legendary]] items in odd slots.
-Many [[skill]]s and [[passive]] abilities also add relevant bonuses, such as (for CHC) the [[Barbarian]] passive [[Weapons Master]] will increase CHC by 10% when wielding an axe.
+Many [[skill]]s and [[passive]] abilities also add relevant bonuses, such as (for CHC) the [[Barbarian]] passive [[Weapons Master]] will increase CHC by 10% when wielding an axe. Similarly, the [[Demon Hunter]] passive [[Archery]] adds 50% CHD when wielding a [[crossbow]], but adds 10% CHC when wielding a [[hand crossbow]].
 ===Balancing CHD versus CHC===

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 ===Balancing CHD versus CHC===
-Statistically, the long-run bonus from critical strikes are equal to (+damage% * +chancetocrit%). Thus, the optimal strategy for increasing CHD is to increase whichever stat gives the largest gain, percentage-wise, over its previous value. For example, if the player has a 25% chance to crit and 60% extra damage on crit, and the choices are (increase % to crit by 5%) or (increase damage on crit 10%), the best choice is to increase to chance to crit. This will increase total damage output by critical strikes from +15% damage (.60 * .25) to +18% damage (.60 * .30) rather than increasing it to 17.5% (.70 * .25)
+On average, the extra base damage (''i.e.'', excluding skills and stats) from critical hits works out to (''CHD%'' * ''CHC%''). Thus, the optimal strategy for increasing total CHD is to increase whichever stat gives the larger gain, percentage-wise, over its previous value. For example, consider a player with a 25% chance to crit for 60% extra damage, who must choose whether to add 10% to CHD or 5% to CHC.
+* Base CHD = 0.6 * 0.25 = '''15%''' extra damage
+* Adding 10% CHD (an increase of 1/6 over previous CHD): 0.7 * 0.25 = '''17.5%''' extra damage
 ==Development Archives==

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 The basic critical hit bonus is still +100% damage, but various skills increase the damage of critical hits, while others increase the odds of critical hits scoring, or cause other effects to trigger when a critical hit is scored. How these will all interact remains to be seen.
-The calculation of the bonuses is going to be interesting as well. In D1 and D2, critical hits were a huge bonus, since doubled the total physical damage dealt; a value that was often in the 1000s for a powerful combat character. In D3 critical hits will still (apparently) be that powerful for the [[Barbarian]], but critical hits on spell damage would seem to be far less potent, since spells generally deal their damage over time, rather than in huge chunks per hit. Occasionally adding 10% to the critical hit damage of a 1-6 damage spell isn't very impressive, even if the spell is hitting 20x a second. A wizard would seem better off boosting the % chance of scoring a critical hit.
+Statistically, your long-run bonus from critical strikes are equal to (+damage% * +chancetocrit%). Thus, the optimal strategy for increasing critical damage is to increase whichever stat gives the largest gain percentage-wise over its previous value. For example, if you have a 25% chance to crit and a 60% extra damage on crit, and your choices are (increase % to crit by 5%) or (increase damage on crit 10%), the best choice is to increase your chance to crit. This will increase your total damage output by critical strikes from +15% damage (.60 * .25) to +18% damage (.60 * .30) rather than increasing it to 17.5% (.70 * .25)
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 [[Image:Critical-hit2.jpg|frame|Cold critical hit, with highlighted gore..]]
 These were demonstrated during a panel at [[BlizzCon 2008]], an excerpt from which [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41498.html can be seen here].
 ==Types of damage and effects==

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 '''Critical hits''' are special types of hits dealt to [[monster]]s (and other players in [[PVP]]). Critical hits can happen from any type of damage (weapon or spell), they deal bonus damage, and may trigger other special effects as well. Monsters that die from critical hits usually explode in an especially gruesome [[Death#Special_Death_Animations|death animation]], adding visual fun to the killing bonuses.
 ==Critical Hit Terms==
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 In [[Diablo I]] critical hits are a hidden bonus for the [http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Warrior#Stats_and_Attributes Warrior] and [http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Barbarian_(Diablo_I)#Stats_and_Attributes Barbarian] characters. They gain a 1% chance to deal double damage with each Clvl they gain. At level 20 they deal double damage 20% of the time, at level 30 they do it 30% of the time, etc.

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−	'''Critical hits''' are special types of hits dealt to [[monster]]s (and other players in [[PVP]]). Critical hits can happen from any type of damage (weapon or spell), they deal bonus damage, and may trigger other special effects as well. Monsters that die from critical hits usually explode in an especially gruesome [[death animation]], adding visual fun to the killing bonuses.	+	'''Critical hits''' are special types of hits dealt to [[monster]]s (and other players in [[PVP]]). Critical hits can happen from any type of damage (weapon or spell), they deal bonus damage, and may trigger other special effects as well. Monsters that die from critical hits usually explode in an especially gruesome [[Death#Special_Death_Animations\|death animation]], adding visual fun to the killing bonuses.

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	'''Critical hits''' are special types of hits dealt to [[monster]]s (and other players in [[PVP]]). Critical hits can happen from any type of damage (weapon or spell), they deal bonus damage, and may trigger other special effects as well. Monsters that die from critical hits usually explode in an especially gruesome [[death animation]], adding visual fun to the killing bonuses.		'''Critical hits''' are special types of hits dealt to [[monster]]s (and other players in [[PVP]]). Critical hits can happen from any type of damage (weapon or spell), they deal bonus damage, and may trigger other special effects as well. Monsters that die from critical hits usually explode in an especially gruesome [[death animation]], adding visual fun to the killing bonuses.
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		+	==Critical Hit Terms==
		+	There are a few crit hit related gameplay terms that are used as variables on [[item]]s, [[skill]]s and other gameplay effects. It's important to know the difference between them:
		+	* '''Critical Hit''' / '''Crit''' - The actual event when a critical hit lands. Increased damage and an added effect, depending on the school of damage used.
		+	* '''Critical Hit Chance''' / '''Crit Chance''' - Chance of landing a critical strike.
		+	* '''Critical Hit Damage''' / '''Crit Damage''' - The actual damage dealt when a Critical Hit has landed.