Crits and the Attack TableFollow

A 'blocked' crushing blow doesn't happen, because you can't have a crushing blow if you block.

a parried crit will not happen, since they are mutually exclusive... etc...

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A 5% crit rate and a 5% hit rate means you will have 5% hits and 5% crits, or 10% of your attacks will hit (half will be crits).

the table looks like this against lvl 73 mobs (bosses)

From behind (no parry);

Miss; depends on weapons; d/w = 27.6%, 2h and 1h only = 8.6%. All special attacks are 8.6% (skills). Minus your hit rating converted to %.
Dodge; 5.6%
Parry; 0%
Glancing; 25%
Crit; = your crit %
Hit; = (100 - the sum of all the others)%

So with 8.6% to hit, 25% to crit and a 2h;

Miss; 0%
Dodge; 5.6%
Parry; 0%
Glancing; 25%
Crit; 25%
Hit; 44.4%

It can't be a miss and a crit, etc...

So...

Dodge; 1 through 5.6
Glancing; 5.7 through 30.6
Crit; 30.7 through 55.6
Hit; 55.7 through 100

This is where I'm confused.

Are you reading into that snippet as saying you can miss a crit or crit a miss? because you can't.

As far as I know it's a single roll system, not a multi-roll system. You roll once on a table, and that's it.

Crit rate and hit rate push miss rates off the table... at a point.

The entirety of the post, if you read farther and before the cut part;



What this means is exactly like I posted above.

Your 'hit' rate is dependent on Hit gear and crit gear, pushing your 'misses' off the 'hit table'.

::EDIT::

In addition: You have a 100% total amount for your hit table. Say you have a 25% miss rate (natural d/w unmodified), and 0% crit. Ignoring dodge, parry, etc... you will have a 75% chance to normal white hit and 25% miss chance.

So if you increase your to hit chance by 5% your actually lowering your miss chance by 5%. Example; 20% miss rate, 80% hit rate.

Edited, Oct 11th 2007 7:58pm by devioususer

Correct, it's one roll.

Let's put this another way...

In most RPGs or other games that include these sort of advanced formulas (accessible to the player), many of them logically define that you can only crit what you hit, therefore crits are a shared percentage of your successful attack strikes:

100 swings, 25% chance to crit, 20% chance to miss. Mathematical odds state you will miss 20 of your hits, crit 20 of them, and land the other 60 as normal swings.

In WoW, this is not the case:

100 swings, 80% chance to hit, 25% chance to crit, 20% chance to miss. The 'one die' method that WoW uses means that you will always crit 25 of your swings (note the difference here; your crit rate is a direct share of that base attack roll, not a portion of your successful strikes like above), miss 20, and land the remaining 55.


There's more to the attack table than that, obviously, but that's the gist of how the WoW attack table is different and how crits are measured.