How does stats stacks?

7000 damage critical...!?

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Ok i got a question

How does stats stacks?

 

I just did a 7000dmg critical so i wonder

 

i had the item like 10% X2 critical. The one who does 10% X4 critical . And the 14K bracer +300 weapon damage

 

I often does 1500 critical (750 base damage with the bracer X2 critical) or 3000 (X4)

but i did almost 7k (6958) so i wonder

 

the two critical items can stack one on the other? i though it was like 10% i have X2 , 10% i have X4, it means 20% of my hits are critical....but it seems they can act together at the same time and stacking !

i think i had 870 damage with bracer of rage so it was 870*2*4= 7k damage in one hit

 

or was i drunk... :beer:

demigod
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

You are right. Currently they stack as in 2 * 4 = 8x damage. It should do 5x damage. (Not 6x, because 6x would count the base damage twice.)

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

One note about multiple criticals, if you have 2 10% chances to critical, you don't have a 20% chance to critical.  You actually have an 18% chance for a single critical:

10% (chance of item1 to critical) * 90% (chance of item2 to NOT critical) * 2 (multiplier since you have two items which work indentically in this way, assuming you're just looking for a critical) = 18% chance for a critical.

Similarly, you have a 1% chance to activate both and do the 8x damage (10% for item1 and 10% for item2) = 1%.

Finally, if you're looking for any critical, you have a 19% chance to critical (combining single and double activations).  This would get more clear if you had, say, 10 critical hit items, but that's obviously not possible at the moment.

Just so you know, quick, geeky lesson in statistics for you.  If you did it your way, then rolling 10 10-sided dice would guarantee you one of every number (10% chance of each * 10 = 100%), which is clearly not the case.

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting AngryZealot, reply 1
You are right. Currently they stack as in 2 * 4 = 8x damage. It should do 5x damage. (Not 6x, because 6x would count the base damage twice.)
I see your reasoning, although it makes crit stacking pointless, and changes the crits to static 10% and 30% damage boosts. The way it works now, having both crit items gives you an extra 3% damage boost. Hardly significant.