Wow, just wow. NO Demonesses in my game.

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by loreangelicus

I believe a critical hit adds +50% damage, so statistically a +20% critical translates to only +10% damage; so take the straight-up +20% damage axe.

a Critical hit causes you to do 150% of the max damage for a unit. This means that it depends on the damage spread of a unit how valuable the crit is.

Also, +20% crit multiplies with Morale. So if you have +3 morale (140% crit) this will be +28% critical instead.

So, how does this figure in? Dryads do 1-4 damage (average 2.5) and crit for 6, more than double damage.

+20% damage would cause them to do just that, 20% more damage flat accross. (so .2*2.5 = .5 more damage per strike)

+20% with 3 morale (easy on dryads) so +28% crit causes them to, on average, do 28% of the crit damage they get. So 6 -2.5 = 3.5, * 28% = .98.

This means that yes, the crit boost is actually substantially more worth it(for dryads under these conditions). Also, most items that increase crit, do so for all your troops, whereas I don't think many items increase damage for all of them.

This is why I like to field high morale, high crit units with large damage ranges .

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Zechnophobe

a Critical hit causes you to do 150% of the max damage for a unit. This means that it depends on the damage spread of a unit how valuable the crit is.

I had no idea critical hits do maximum damage on top of 50% additional damage.

I learn something new every day. Haha.

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This actually makes the spell Doom a little bit more worthwhile. Otherwise, Pygmy utterly annihilates it. (it still sort of does though. Haha).

[onepiece]

@Ckdamascus; I learned that in AP and boosted all my units critical (dagger of judgment + shadow cloak/ Max Prayer skill; critical boosting items for particular races/units, etc.)

The only problem is that by having 95-100% critical chance, Ancient vampire are nearly invincible (since they cannot be hit by critical) so I had to kill them by spells or wait until a negative effect lowered my critical chance.

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by onepiece

@Ckdamascus; I learned that in AP and boosted all my units critical (dagger of judgment + shadow cloak/ Max Prayer skill; critical boosting items for particular races/units, etc.)

The only problem is that by having 95-100% critical chance, Ancient vampire are nearly invincible (since they cannot be hit by critical) so I had to kill them by spells or wait until a negative effect lowered my critical chance.

Sheep them.

[Metathron]

Oh really? Sheep works then? I assumed that sheep would keep an attribute like death's deception much like they keep their defense/hit points/resistances (I guess). Though it would be funny to see a sheep swerve from a crit.

Also, attacking ancient vampires with special attacks like the elves' double shot or the executioners' execution cannot trigger a critical and is therefore a safe bet.

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Metathron

Oh really? Sheep works then? I assumed that sheep would keep an attribute like death's deception much like they keep their defense/hit points/resistances (I guess). Though it would be funny to see a sheep swerve from a crit.

Also, attacking ancient vampires with special attacks like the elves' double shot or the executioners' execution cannot trigger a critical and is therefore a safe bet.

Yeah, but where is the fun in that? I want some REAL damage. Haha.

One thing I hate about sheep is that they automatically lose all debuffs and buffs when they transform into a sheep.

So, if I am using the fire/poison/helplessness/pygmy combo on someone, and then my rune mage sheeps him on attack... he loses all those debuffs.

[onepiece]

@Ckdamascus; I didn't have sheep at that moment (or not enough mana) so all I could do was wait