(edited by Nocturnal Lunacy.8563)
So a couple of things.
The following is the expected critical damage numbers of the using average weapon power and using the minimum and maximum weapon power against targets with 1500, 2000, 2500 and 300 Armor. Slash and Kick have the same coefficient so that is why they use the same values. Pounce has a slightly higher coefficient.
These values do not take into account the vulnerability stacks from Opening Strike and Alpha Training nor the Might from Tail Wind or the extra damage from Hunter’s Tactics or extra damage from #6 of the Eagle runes.
In other words these would be numbers for about 6 seconds after the start of a fight and assuming you haven’t bursted the target down to below 50% in that 6 seconds and you are standing in front of them(not side or back).
average weapon power
905 weapon power
1000 weapon power
That covers the damage numbers assuming all crits. Non crit values would be 234% less. That seems to be in line with what you have described. Hornet’s Sting and Serpent’s Strike will do same damage as Pounce, Monarch’s Leap will do more, Stalker’s Strike will do quite a bit less and Crippling Talon somewhere in between Pounce and Monarch’s Leap.
In summary damage will range from 963 for an unlucky roll against a tank to 2482 for a lucky roll against a possibly undergeared glass cannon assuming no might stacks on you and no vulnerability stacks on the target.
I just found this out myself literally today but critical chance is capped at 99% possibly lower. It doesn’t matter if the hero panel shows a higher value. I was talking to a friend and the friend mentioned that she read it was capped at 99%. Right as I was typing “What did they have as proof?”, I saw a non-crit damage pop up on my screen
. My crit% at the time was 104%.
For the life steal proc from food. The “lifesteal” that pops up on screen is not from the food, that is from shooting your bow through a dark field. When the life steal from the food procs it just appears as green numbers on your screen. Each proc will have two numbers, one higher and one lower. The lower number is how much damage you are doing to the enemy with the life steal and the higher number is how much you are getting healed.
You can test what I said in the previous paragraph pretty easily. Eat your life steal then find some mob that is decently tanky but doesn’t hit very hard. Dolyaks in Frostgorge Sound would fit the bill. Set your pet to passive, hit the mob once then let it take your health down whatever you are comfortable with but 50% or 75% should do nicely. Now you should start attacking again and you’ll see the green numbers pop. It might seem a bit complicated but that is just to ensure a controlled test.
For my own testing I actually did it in Plains of Ashford and the problem there was that many skelks burned to death before I could finish testing. :P
As for the 10k damage from a thief that depends on which skill was used. Probably either Backstab or Heartseeker. Both of those skills have fairly high damage coefficients, starts at 1.0 and goes all the way up to 2.4. On top of all that are a bunch of thief traits(can’t take all of them at once but you can take a decent number of them) which give +% damage. Then on top of all those are the runes and sigils everyone has access to.
