I should have pointed out that I have the Thief as my mundus stone... I've tried the Warrior and Shadow, and neither seem to really help at all. Warrior bumps me up a couple hundred weapon damage... shadow obviously you can't see what it does (other than lower the crit chance).

nvm double post

With a Crit heavy build you will want to maximize the Crit Damage. Unmodified, your crit will hit for 150% of your damage, but putting in precise strikes can up that to 175% of your damage with 100 points invested. I know you don't have that many CP yet, but my point is trying to up your Crit Damage since your Crit % is already really high. Other than that, the only way to up your dmg output would be to sacrifice crit for weapon damage and make sure all of your gear and enchants are purple or gold. Seeing that high number feels great but if you can't take advantage of it to deal massive damage, then you should rethink your build.

Thanks for some solid advice. I'll definitely be fiddling around. My gear is all gold. My only concern with making physical damage glyphs on my jewelry is the sacrifice of a huge portion of stamina regen - I eat stamina up like no-one's business!!

Jitterbug wrote: »

So, I guess my post is kinda pointless as I also will have to experiment some more, but I must admit I'm a little sad to hear that everything above 50% is downright wasted.

Its not so much a waste to go above 50% critical, and yes you may get a Critical slightly more often as you go over 50%. On the character I had critical chance at 82% I would get critical on every single attack. It's just when I did things that dropped the chance to about 56% I did not notice all that much of a drop in critical strikes. It went down, but not so much that I felt I was leaving damage on the table so to speak. So, yes if Crits are your main goal it is a good strategy to max crits out.

It's just that once you get over 50% criticals, there are other stats that you can invest in to give you more overall power/capability to your character. For example, it might be a good idea to take steps instead to increase your damage output (which would increase the damage that your criticals give you) or increase some regen to recover resources.

So, I probably should have said that once your critical chance is over 50% it may be more beneficial to your overall character to boost other stats as the benefit of increasing your crits over 50% diminishes.

Of course the Champion System has some thing do with this strategy and the things I used to have to do with Gear I can now do to some extent with the Champ System. So, it may be viable to go to 70% to 80% as you can use the Champ System to improve other aspects rather than gear and passives alone.

Jitterbug wrote: »

I'm glad that I now know this, but I stand by my statement that it's a little sad you can't "build for crit".

To me, building for Criticals means also building for base damage that crits scale from. If your base damage is 100, a crit is 150, but if your base damage is 150, then your crits are 225. So, increasing base damage is really a good way to increase your damage with crits, especially if your getting crits on most of your attacks. More of a multiplier effect.

Hmmm I can't remember if the champ constellation to increase your damage is in the same group as the one that increases your critical damage, that could be a factor too. Where do you put those points?