How to calculate Critical Damage ??
Did you just ask what percent is? To me prowess is much harder to define.
Edit: And yes, gear that increases damage and critical damage will increase you damage output. Gear that increases your chance of striking critical will make you hit harder more often.
I mean, If I wish to have high damage on Critical. Do I need to up “Power” ??
Yes, power increases your base damage. As do some boons, conditions and traits.
Power defines how much your regular attacks do. Let’s say with the power you have your attack 1 hits for 1000 damage = X.
150% base critical damage means that when you score a critical hit you will hit for 150% of X, or 1500.
If you have 50% critical damage from gear, traits etc, then your actual critical damage is 200% (150% + 50%), which means that when you score a critical hit you will do 200% of X, or 2000.
Can’t lay it down any simpler.
boosted damage * base crit. mult. > base damage * boosted crit. mult.
Thats it. Wasted alot of mats and money before realized this rule
I guess you should read base damage as “The damage you would have done if you didn’t crit”
It’s very simple …base critical dmg = 150%
..if you have 1% critical dmg then you do 151% critical dmg (51% more dmg than a normal hit)
..not that much if you think about it because you can only get to stack about 200%+ critical dmg (double dmg when u crit rather than a standard 50% more dmg)
(edited by Payne.5062)
Thx you so much guys, really appreciated your great explanation ! =D