How do critical hits work exactly?

[krahar]

I believe that if an ability would ordinarily do X damage, and you've got a critical damage modifier of Y, then the ability will do (1+Y)*X damage on a critical hit. This is what the tooltip in-game seems to imply is what happens. Is that really what happens?

 

I'm seeing some posts in here calculating crit damage as only picking up the bonus damage that you get from your primary stat and power - so no benefit from base damage of the ability. If that is true, it makes crit much less useful. So what I'm asking is if crit multiplies *all* components of the damage an ability does, including anything that got buffed, for example the knight/warrior +5% buff to bonus damage.

 

Please don't respond with "of course it does noob!" if you haven't personally verified this in-game looking at actual numbers in the combat log.

[xdvesper]

I've been playing since launch. I PVP competitively and know by heart the damage ranges on most skills on normal hits and on crits.. Crits do (1+Y)*X.

 

Not sure what else you want to / need to hear.

[krahar]

I've been playing since launch. I PVP competitively and know by heart the damage ranges on most skills on normal hits and on crits.. Crits do (1+Y)*X.

 

Not sure what else you want to / need to hear.

 

That'll do. Thank you!