Spell critical Rating, Quick question

markkaye32b16_ESO · January 2017

Can someone please tell me what 'Spell Critical rating' means please, a passive ability will increase it by 1095.

OurRun_DMC · January 2017

Spell critical rating is the rating for how often your magicka attacks should crit on a target. So if you're a magic build, that's a good buff to have on you

paulsimonps · January 2017

From my previous testing its 219 crit per 1% but that might not be up to date with U13.

Alagras · January 2017

Basically it's the value your crit chance is calculated from.

It's weired that tooltips say by how much a skill will raise your critical rating, but the total is nowhere to be found.
It should always be expressed as a flat %, or they should let us see total crit rating in char sheet.

markkaye32b16_ESO · January 2017

Cool. Thx so very much. and yeah I wish the tool tip match the descriptions.

Liofa · January 2017

Check the tooltip on Magelight . That skill gives you some Spell Critical Rating . That value is exactly 10% . You can calculate other values using that .

Dagoth_Rac · January 2017

The weird values on spell and weapon crit is because the actual percentage you get varies by level. So 50 crit on a Level 5 piece of gear might be 3% crit on a Level 5 character but only 0.05% crit on a CP160 character. The values used to be flat "4% crit" and stuff like that. But endgame players were wearing some easily obtainable low-level gear sets and getting highly competitive crit ratings. They wanted to put a stop to that and now crit rating works like armor rating, which is also a weird number and not a flat "reduces damage by 8%" or whatever.

I used to have an addon that converted the numbers to percentages. And it was funny when I would transfer a piece of high level gear to a low level alt. They would see stuff like, "Adds 278% crit." Of course, they were Level 10 and could not even equip this VR16 armor! And by the time they reached VR16, the crit number on that would be down to the expected 3% or so.

Alagras · January 2017

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

The weird values on spell and weapon crit is because the actual percentage you get varies by level. So 50 crit on a Level 5 piece of gear might be 3% crit on a Level 5 character but only 0.05% crit on a CP160 character. The values used to be flat "4% crit" and stuff like that. But endgame players were wearing some easily obtainable low-level gear sets and getting highly competitive crit ratings. They wanted to put a stop to that and now crit rating works like armor rating, which is also a weird number and not a flat "reduces damage by 8%" or whatever.

I used to have an addon that converted the numbers to percentages. And it was funny when I would transfer a piece of high level gear to a low level alt. They would see stuff like, "Adds 278% crit." Of course, they were Level 10 and could not even equip this VR16 armor! And by the time they reached VR16, the crit number on that would be down to the expected 3% or so.

Very clear explanation. I still wonder if devs couldn't find another way around to penalize wearing under-leveled gear, because it's messy the way it is.

Regarding armor rating, at least the total is displayed on char sheet. But it's mitigation % that isn't... why? (an addon does it)
There are probably reasons not to I haven't tought of. But as mitigation is capped and armor rating isn't, many tanks are armor rating-obsessed and go over the cap when they should focus on other stats. And it's normal, since the game doesn't tell them.