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Critical Attack (Dmg) vs Raw Physical / Elemental Damage

General Discussion
#1

If I’m a DEX build with a very high Crit Rate, when should I take Critical Attack over Raw Damage? Is Critical Attack just RAW additional damaged added onto an attack?

For instance if I have a weapon that is 120 dmg with 40 crit damage and a weapon with 160 dmg. Would the 120+ 40 crit dmg be better because of how crit dmg scales (please explain) or would the raw 160 be better because crit damage is a % base and I’d get say 160 dmg * 50% more damage for a crit.

As far as I can tell a critical hit does base dmg + 50% or so, so as I add more Crit Damage does that percent go up or does it just add that raw critical attack damage on top.

Example 100 dmg hit with 20 critical attack stat, would a critical do (100*1.5)+20?

If anyone can explain or link me to a explanation I’d appreciate it.

#2

bumpity bumpy bumppp i’d like to know as well!

#3

100 dmg + 20 crit attack + 20 property attack = (100*1,5) +20 +20

#4

So, raw PHYSICAL damage is much better than having Critical Attack? Because the Raw damage gets a 1.5x multiplier on crit where Critical Damage is just added onto the end as pure damage?

So 50 Physical damage when crit would be 75 and 50 Critical Attack would just be +50 damage correct? So in it’s current state (mainly in regards to hair accessories) Physical or Elemental damage is more beneficial that Critical Attack stats?

#5

EDIT: didnt read your full post sorry

critical attack are better for high defense mobs
raw damage are the best for most situation

but getting critical attack is still good if you can get items for it since there are more item that gives crit attack than physical attack

if you ask me what i prefer, i would choose critical attack than raw damage since my build is more on dex atm but my str is higher because of the bonus 10% per rank. i only up my str because im poor af

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more like critical attack is better than raw damage

critical attack are like pure damage. they deal 100% damage to everything and not reduced by anything.

this is what i mean by pure damage

lets say you deal 150 damage and critical attack is 500 (example only)
defense of the monster is 200 so you deal almost nothing or like 1 only

you crit and the damage should be 501 and not 450 because the critical attack that is added on every crit are only added after the reduction of defense on raw physical damage

since the calculation i think is this (without elemental property)

((your attack - mob defense/resistances) * 1.5 ) + your critical attack

#6

Ok so I was right when I said Critical Attack is TRUE damage as in it is not affected by defense etc so 100 Critical Attack will ALWAYS add 100 damage and never be reduced right?

So essentially it’s good to have a balance.

#7

yes they deal true damage

it is better to go crit attack than raw damage if you have a good crit chance/rate if not then raw physical attack is better.