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#1 Nov 20 2007 at 5:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Hi all. I have to say that I am a little confused regarding Combustion.
I understand that it increases your chance to crit with each hit, and lasts for 3 crits. That's fine. What I don't understand is exactly what's critting.

I experimented with Pyro on mobs the same level as me. With Combustion on, I was hitting around 700-900. Once combustion had gone (not every time of course) I could hit over 1000 at times.

Am I missing something?
#2 Nov 20 2007 at 5:37 AM Rating: Decent
There is alot that your leaving out....Was scorch stacked? Even when you crit you can get partial resists...
#3 Nov 20 2007 at 5:39 AM Rating: Decent
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Hmmm then there's obviously a lot I don't know yet, this is my first character.
It's possible there was resists, I didn't think of that.

What do you mean by scorch stacked?

Edited, Nov 20th 2007 8:40am by Reknotz
#4 Nov 20 2007 at 6:03 AM Rating: Good
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Here's the theory behind combustion. Let's say you have a 20% chance to crit. So, if you walk out and cast a spell (we'll say fireball), at a rabbit, 1 in 5 should crit. Okay, now let's say you have 10 rabbits lined up. You pop combustion and hit the first rabbit. You have a 20% chance to crit. You hit the rabbit and don't crit. You target rabbit #2. Now you have a 30% chance to crit. Let's say you crit (so you've used 1 of the 3 charges). You target the next rabbit and you have a 40% chance to crit. You do, so now you only have 1 charge left. Now you target the next rabbit and you have a 50% chance to crit. You don't. Next rabbit you have a 60% chance to crit. And so on until you have critted 3 times, then combustion is used up.

In regards to the question... the thing that crits is the spell you cast (e.g. if I cast a fireball, then instead of a normal hit, you get a critical hit for more damage and it catches on fire and squirms around a bit more).

HTH

Edited, Nov 20th 2007 9:43am by ktangent
#5 Nov 20 2007 at 7:14 AM Rating: Good
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Reknotz wrote:
What do you mean by scorch stacked?


The Improved Scorch debuff will stack up to 5 times on an enemy.
#6 Nov 21 2007 at 3:10 AM Rating: Decent
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I see. Thanks all, I know what to look for now :)
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