I accually used two halfs of sets [ +28% and +32% crit rate] for a long time, then now im using a full set for an evade bounus, im not seeing a 28% difference in crits ;P I dont think set crits stack as i used to.
Ya, that's because the crit rate armor is a little misleading.
Let's say you had 400 agility. Then Critical Rate = 1% + 1.5%*4 = 7%. When you had both the two halves on, it rose to 7(1.6)=11.2%. Then when switching to a full set with the 32% crit rate, it dropped to 7(1.32)=9.24%. So it dropped 2%. So you most likely wouldn't see much of a difference, since for every 100 hits, on average you would experience only 2 less critical hits.
What I find interesting is that on the IAH forums, they were having a hard time showing that the critical rate increased as STR rose for any class other than a warrior. This means that as STR increased, a warrior class received about 5% for every 200 STR. And this brings up several points:
-The Heirloom Bone set for Myrmidon gives 120% crit rate for a 7 piece set. So if a myrm stacked STR and had around 400, his crit rate would be around 11%, assuming they only get crit rate from STR. His crit rate with the set would then be around 24%!
-The Dragoon CP set gives a huge amount of critical damage if used as a 3/3. With the two sets, a dragoon could easily get +300% critical damage. So again, if the Dragoon stacked STR and had around 400, his critical rate would be 11% as before, but each critical hit would do 8x the normal damage (As given in an example on IAH, if crosscut does 20k damage, then a normal critical hit would be 40k. But we have 300% crit damage, so 300% of 40k is 160k, which is 20k*8) So if you think about it, lets take two dragoons with identical equips, but one has 200 more STR. The one with more STR then has a 5% higher critical rate, which means he gets a critical hit 5 more times out of 100. But each critical hit counts as 8 normal attacks, so in a sense, the dragoon with 200 more STR hits for 40 ADDITIONAL attacks. So instead of 100 hits, in essence its 140, which can be stated as the dragoon with 200 STR being 40% stronger than the dragoon without the 200 STR (note that i didnt take into account that STR increases attack, so it would be even higher.)
Just a couple of points to think about
If you any of you are interested in reading more, here is the IAH page:
http://forum.iahgame...ead.php?t=56055
Edited by Solarak, 28 December 2010 - 01:14 PM.
