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Criticals and Damage Shift

DaraiusDaraius ShevatThe juror's taco spot
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With a quick spin, you kick an ice mammoth with your left foot.
You shift the reserved damage of your last strike forward.
You have scored a WORLD-SHATTERING CRITICAL HIT!!!

When this happens, is my shifted damage being multiplied by the WSC, or just added to it? 
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  • DaraiusDaraius Shevat The juror's taco spot
    Sorry if I'm obtuse, but I need just a little more clarification. It's the order of the lines in the shift/crit message that confuse me.

    Say I kill a mob with 100 health with an attack that does 100 damage, and I get a critical (2x). I have 100 damage shifted to the next attack against a mob with 1,000 health, and that attack is an Obliterating Crit (8x). I get my base damage of 100 multiplied by 8, but is my shifted damage from the last attack also multiplied by 8 (for a total of 1,600 damage), or is it added (for a total of 900)?
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  • ReylReyl
    edited October 2013
    Just had something happen which MIGHT have some significance? Was hunting the blasted lands, chasing a bunch of jackals around – killed a jackal (health unknown, due to them all running around everywhere) with a crushing critical, then got gravedug, then killed the gravedigger with a critical hit, the previous damage also being carried forward.

    For reference, I do something like 1200-1600 damage. I forget, and it varies anyway depending on whether or not I have a knowledge blessing etc (on this occasion I did not). Without any crits, jackals take something like four hits to kill, gravediggers like 6-8? 

    Someone with a more organised mind than mine might be able to draw some conclusions from this :P

    (I know a log would have been better, but it wouldn't let me post it ;-;)

  • KarlachKarlach God of Kittens.
    Crushing criticals have a higher multiplier than normal criticals, so you did far more damage to the jackal than you did to the gravedigger.

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  • ReylReyl
    ok let me think..... let's call my damage 1500 because it's an easier number. The crushing critical against the jackal would then have done 6000 damage. If 4 hits (also 6000 damage) usually kills one, and odds were I'd hit it maybe twice already, that leaves 3000 damage to shift to the gravedigger. Gravediggers (let's say 6 hits w/e) have 9000hp (this is so dumb I'm probably getting this all wrong), and I get a critical... ~*~SO~*~

    a) the shifted damage is applied separately and not multiplied:
    3000 shifted + 3000 normal crit = 6000 – not enough to kill a gravedigger

    or

    b) The damage from the last attack and the current one are added together, then the crit happens and multiplies that damage
    (3000 shifted + 1500 = 4500) X 2 = 9000 – yay dead gravedigger

    does that make any sense?
  • SsalissSsaliss
    As above, the damage from damage shift is applied first, then any new damage is done. You can never "double-crit" by multiplying an already-multiplied value. So it'd be case a).
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