Maximum Crit/Destruction Question

Tyrrax · July 2014

I'm running around on a Breton Templar, just hit VR5. Traditionally, I've been running infused on all my armor pieces and putting +magicka enchants on them. I'm going for a strong healing spec with some dps capability.

Recently, I have been trying new ways of upping my spell crit. I just made a new set of gear with all divines and set my divine to The Thief. The problem is my spell crit is unchanged and still sitting at 25%. Putting magelight on doesn't increase it either. No matter what I do my maximum spell crit seems to be locked at 25%.

Also I have been leveling with Resto Staff for most of my time with the Magicka drain enchant. I decided recently to try out Destruction Staff. I was wondering as a templar, do the bonuses for Destruction Spells affect the Sunfire/Vampires Bane/Reflecting Light line (Then again I have to ask are these spells affected by spell crit) ?

I've heard that Resto Staff for some reason is one of the best DPS weapons around, is this a joke?

GFBStarWars · July 2014

no its a really good dps vs single target and the fact that heavy attack give 10% magika back is a really good think ( as i am a healer and love/need magika)

one thing that you could use is the passive in the light armour skill line that give 10% spell crit (prodigy, at least i think it works)
and the inner light from mages guild if u don use it already ( don't know which morph u have)

i don't really use crit on my build but that is just because i prefer to have a continuos amount of heal then reeling on crit that never come when u need them, still pretty nice to see them sometimes

for aedric spear ability there is a passive that increases 10% crit for those abilities.

not sure about which passive are u talking about on the destro staff but generally passive are locked on staff abilities or staff equipped (this 2 cases)

P.s.: if you haven't checked yet most of the gear that give spell crit now will be changed in next patch if nothing changes, so don't rely on them that much

Tyrrax · July 2014

Ok so I did some testing. I started with an almost full divines set, precise on my staff (all blue gear with a couple of purple) with my crit at 25%. Magelight, on or off had no affect on the number.

I then went and switched my divine to another one and came back. When switching my crit became 20%, once again unaffected by magelight. Going back to the thief stone boosted my crit to 26.7%. Magelight stilll having no affect.

I even turned off magelight, switched my divine again and turned it back on before activating the Thief stone.

So here are the issues:
-Is the Thief stone working right?
-Is spell crit properly updating?
-Is Magelight working right? Other players in game I have talked to, mainly Sorcerers are not having this problem.
-Does being a Templar change the dynamics for me? The only spell I really care about other than healing crit are my one attack spell Reflecting Light.

CoUsT · July 2014

I had similar issue with Inner Light. However it was fixed by simply turning it off and on again. No idea why this happened. Try to report it using /bug in game chat.

Ps. Thief stone is working - at least for me.

LunaRae · July 2014

Try changing your mundus stone entirely, then go back and get the thief stone and that might fix your character sheet issue. Spell crit on the character sheet might be more bugged than weapon crit, maybe 1.3 will address some of these challenges

Tyrrax · July 2014

I tried that. The originally the value was 25%. Took off the thief effect and it dropped to 20%. I put it back on and got 26.7%. Magelight doesn't change it at all.

Dagoth_Rac · July 2014

Get a combat log addon. Some actually give you a percentage for how often you crit. All will at least list when a crit happens. Keep a track of what happens. It is often the case that crit is working fine and it is just the character sheet display is wrong.

Tonturri · July 2014

Magelight sometimes doesn't give me the bonus, but recasting it once has always fixed it thus far. I use the morph that gives 20% crit, can't speak for the other one. Also using the thief mundus stone, and it seems to be working. I hover around 40% crit.

Unfortunately, it's not a joke about the resto staff. There's a passive in the resto staff tree that gives a % damage boost per 20% HP you have, max 10% extra damage. You can run around with a rest ostaff and all class skills slotted.