My guildmates and I have been having a drawn-out discussion about Critical Hit Rate in Renewal and want to get some clarification from those that may know. So far, I have done searches all over the internet/forums and haven't found anything conclusive.
The Offensive Skills list on the Wiki does not include Double Attack or Raging Trifecta Blow.According to the iRO Wiki:
Critical Hit Rate: Your critical hit rating, which increases damage by 40%. Offensive Skills do not take CRIT into account except for a few exceptions like Focused Arrow Strike. Critical Hit also ignores Flee but not Perfect Dodge nor Def.
But there is nothing on the skill description for Raging Trifecta Blow that mentions Crit.The skill description on Wiki for Double Attack states:
Skill has higher priority over Critical attacks.
My guildmate thought that Crit ignores Def (but wasn't sure with Renewal changes), and that if you did have high crit, the crit damage would cancel out your regular hit damage, thereby preventing Raging Trifecta from triggering as frequently as it should for the skill level you may have. We weren't sure if this was the case for Double Attack as well.
Other forums have mentioned that Trifecta actually overrides crit hits, but I can't find anything that solidly states, with testing/evidence, what the true case is here, especially for Renewal.
Any help or enlightenment on the matter would be great! Does anyone know a good source for documentation of changes to Crit for Renewal? Doddler's Future Wiki seems to be down at this time or I would search there...
Edited by Nilami, 30 April 2011 - 09:06 AM.