Let's say I had an attack that did 1000 damage. If the attack were to crit (Assume no mitigation for the target), I would have 1500 damage as the damage that the target takes.

1000*1.5 = 1500

Now, let's add in Hemorrhage. The passive increases Critical Damage by 10%. This results in an effective 5% increase to the critical damage I do, as all crit damage boosts apply only to the critical damage portion of the ability. This results in the attack now critting for 1550 damage as opposed to 1500.

50*0.1 = 5
50 + 5 = 55
Therefore:
1000*1.55 = 1550

Now, let's add in Minor Force. Minor force increases the critical damage by 10%. This results in an effective 6% increase to critical damage, which stacks additively with Hemorrhage. Therefore, I have an effective 10.5% bonus critical damage. The attack now crits for 1605 damage.

10+11 = 21
50*0.21=10.5
50 + 10.5 = 60.5
Therefore:
1000*1.605 = 1605

Finally, let's add in Major Force. Major Force increases critical damage by 30%. This results in an effective 15% increase in critical damage, which stacks with all previous buffs. Therefore, I have an effective 18% bonus critical damage. The attack now crits for 1680 damage.

10+11+15 = 36
50*0.36 = 18
50+ 18 = 68
Therefore:
1000*1.68 = 1680

The way that critical damage buffs work in ESO innately devalues the champion points for Elfborn and Precise strikes, due to having a much lower effect then they would otherwise have should the values had been calculated differently. This is the main reason why Mighty/Thaumaturge/Elemental Expert are the preferred 1st choice when trying to increase damage output.

I know that the crit damage bonus applies only to the 50% crit plus damage, that is why I wrote the (text in brackets)..

The problem is, I couldn't see any modification, neither the "5%" or Hemorrhage when I put a skill of that skill line into my bar, nor the "5%" from the skill Rearming Trap. In fact, there was no Bonus at all.

Test yourself in any PvE encounter..

DeanTheCat wrote: »

Also, did you have an Assassination ability slotted? You need one slotted to activate Haemorrhage.

I did. Now, lets leave the following posts for people, who actually have noticed the "unaffected" crit, or that have tested Hemorrhage in PvE. Even 5% is noticeable! The problem is, I saw no raise at all..

I'll also test the Dark Elves (from stealth) crit bonus passive tonight, as I suspect sth., and I'll keep a close read on the next hotfix. Tonight, I'll use FTC instead of Combat Cloud for the raw numbers.

My bad, I meant Bosmer. Nonetheless, I said which effect I was refering to: crit bonus damage from stealth.

This is just a second point, my first question (since the beginning of the thread) is about the Hemorrhage passive.

I did my testing with light weapon attacks using sword/sword and 2h swords, vr10 area, no damage increase