NB Question: Spell or Weapon Crit

GRxKnight

So for the sake of not being a linear player and only using a bow/DW spec, I wanted to make a spell damage based armor set/skill path for 1.3. In trying to decide what armor pieces I want though I wanted to max spell crit for my class abilities that I will be using in the assassin and shadow skill trees with funnel health/swallow soul and sap essence as my only siphoning abilities to consider. However I've read on many forums and threads that the majority of NB assassin and shadow abilities, while they scale off spell damage, they use weapon crit to determine the critical strike chance for the ability instead of spell crit. Can anyone confirm this or tell me otherwise or give me a rule of thumb to determine how a NB's class skills determine critical strike chance?

Thanks in advance.

PBpsy

Again. If it looks like a weapon attack it uses weapon crit.. So Assassins Blade , Veiled Strike ,Teleport strike ,Death Stroke . The rest is Spell crit based. So for Siphoning go magicka and spell crit. Works great.

Although the game was now so nerfed that you kill VR10 Storm atronachs with this build.
Dumb Build


With no weapon in hands and no ultimate. Just get a lot of magicka and health

GRxKnight

So then Soul Tether would work off spell crit then?

PBpsy

GRxKnight wrote: »

So then Soul Tether would work off spell crit then?

I am 99% certain it does.Veil of blades does go with spell crit.