So Does Critical hit/damage help hydra/blizzard?

[wutevaplaya]

Wouldn't basing the damage hydra does on your dps simplify it? Poison is a damage per second spell so it makes sense that it bases it off of your overall dps.

[magicrectangle]

Wouldn't basing the damage hydra does on your dps simplify it? Poison is a damage per second spell so it makes sense that it bases it off of your overall dps.

It is simple, but it isn't consistent. The system is confusing because practically every spell seems to calculate its damage a different way. Some can crit, some can't. Some can proc stuff a lot, some a little, some not at all - and none of it is transparent to the user.

[Absynthe]

The reason that I'm "dumping on the game" in this thread is because, as LeminaAusa explained to us,



The explanation is fantastic, not only in its accuracy in describing a confusing system, but also in exposing how the damage systems and calculations in D3 are horrendously complicated, misleading and badly designed. One shouldn't need "several posters there conducted tests on hydra and blizzard and posted results" to understand how a skill works and what type of damage it does.

sounds to me you've never played a game like ultima online

[Ith]

Big deal if the system is confusing, all games with any amount of depth would have some kind of confusion that needs testing, parsing logs to get a clear idea of what's actually going on. Take your QQ somewhere else, nobody gives a ****.

[moreno]

Do blizzard's crits activate critical mass passive cd reduce?

[LeminaAusa]

Do blizzard's crits activate critical mass passive cd reduce?

Yes, but its only 2% chance to trigger critical mass per target hit per tick.

The inferno wizard - common builds sticky on top of this forum has a lot of useful info about this.