Critical hit and damage bonus for special attacks

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by Rah

This is great news, another reason to buy the game close to my days-off. I am really tempted to do it now, but real life work demands the opposite

What about damage from items added to special attacks?

Based on testing, no, they do not. I only tested the red dragon flame breath. Attacks more similar to normal attacks might work.

[camelotcrusade]

Originally Posted by Zechnophobe

Based on testing, no, they do not. I only tested the red dragon flame breath. Attacks more similar to normal attacks might work.

Pre-patch I have seen the Soothsayer's ice storm crit and all of the alchemist's potions crit at one time or another. I was using the unofficial fix to enable rage/spell crit, though.

Haven't played post-patch, I am afraid.

[Zechnophobe]

Just to be clear, all unit special skills DO crit, pre and post patch.

However, special unit skills do not benefit from items that increase damage by a flat amount, like poison dagger or astral bow.