Madgecko Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 What is tech crit vs regular crit atribute and is it better than regular crit on gear? If so than is the combat cell better than armor piercing one? Combat cell increases tech crit by 3% if specce dinto it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocoFuzzyPants Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 There are three different types of abilities. Ranged, tech, and melee. Each of them have separate chances to crit, ergo the different types of crit buffs you are seeing on your armor. Neither of them are better they just suit different styles. Tech is more for healers in my experience and regular is more for dps. Combat support cell is the ammo type you want for the medic tree and armor piercing is for th gunnery tree. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuQu Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 All crit types are increased by Crit rating. Specific crit types are increased by other stats. Cunning increases tech crit (and ranged for Smugglers), Willpower increases force crit, Strength increases melee crit (and force crit for Knights I believe), and Aim increase ranged crit (and tech crit for Troopers). Each tree has its own ammo type. Medic is Combat Support, Gunnery is Armor-Piercing, and Assault is Plasma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draksen Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 And for assault commandos, at the top of the talent tree, there's something to add tech crit%, is tech% applied to elemental attacks then maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draksen Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 *bump* Burnout http://www.torhead.com/ability/6MImHoo/burnout So what is the tech crit% increased here, especially for an assault specced commando?Incendiary Rounds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuQu Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 And for assault commandos, at the top of the talent tree, there's something to add tech crit%, is tech% applied to elemental attacks then maybe? Tech Crit% only increases the crit chance of your tech abilities. That's your heals and many, but not all of your attacks. Generally, weapon based attacks like Hammer Shot and Full Auto are ranged, not tech, and anything with a probe or grenade like attack is tech. I don't play assault, but I assume that is useful for your spec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylanaris Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Ranged Attacks: White damage Tech Attacks: Yellow damage (or Green Heals) As far as I know, only Talent Points (Skill Tree) can make your range vs tech crit to be different Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeborne Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 If I could piggy back on this discussion. Do you folks know how much tech damage vs weapon DPS effect HiB? And is hammer shot only affected by your weapon's DPS rating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draksen Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Ranged Attacks: White damage Tech Attacks: Yellow damage (or Green Heals) So Assault DoTs are tech as they are displayed in yellow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaigen Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 (edited) Ranged Attacks: White damage Tech Attacks: Yellow damage (or Green Heals) As far as I know, only Talent Points (Skill Tree) can make your range vs tech crit to be differentActually, your tech crit will tend to be slightly higher than your ranged crit, since Aim adds equally to both values but Cunning adds to your tech crit. It's not going to be a huge difference by any means (even if you have all the +Cunning datacrons), but it's there. Edit: Also, you can pull up your abilities window and read along the right hand column to see which abilities are tech. Edited January 26, 2012 by Kaigen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetrump Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 If I could piggy back on this discussion. Do you folks know how much tech damage vs weapon DPS effect HiB? And is hammer shot only affected by your weapon's DPS rating? HIB is white AKA weapon damage. Pull up your abilities tab (default key "P") should show "ranged" or "tech" next to all of your attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZucriyLyhdnamm Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Charged Bolts and Full-Auto are also based on Weapon Damage just FYI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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