D2R Critical Strike

D2R Critical Strike

Critical Strike grants a chance to do double physical damage with your attacks.

Critical Strike will work with any weapon. Critical Strike is a very important Amazon skill because it adds the chance of doing double damage. Since it’s passive it can combine with any of the Amazon’s skills. The beauty of Critical Strike is that it is a Passive skill so it is always “active” and it will combine with additional skills you may use such as Multiple Shot, Pierce and so on.

Does the Amazon’s Critical Strike double all of the damage done, or only the base damage done without any double in elemental attacks?
The rules for what modifiers get applied when are very complex. In general, all bonus multipliers are added together and then applied (+50% and +20% = +70%) and then all bonus adds are then applied. Some magic modifiers affect the base damage of the weapon before the bonus multipliers – generally the non-elemental ones.

 D2R Critical Strike

Deadly Strike/Critical Strike

  • Deadly Strike (DS)/Critical Strike (CS) are both a chance to double your Physical damage.
  • They apply to both Melee and Ranged attacks, but not to Spells.
  • They do not apply to Impale, Dragon Talon, Dragon Tail, Dragon Flight, Sacrifice, or Smite.
  • They do work with the Blade Traps.
  • Skills that convert Physical damage to a different type (Magic, Fire and Cold Arrows, Lightning Bolt, Fists of Fire, Berserk, Concentrate, and Frenzy (when synergized by Berserk)) do so after DS or CS are applied, so converted damage is doubled.
  • They will modify your final Physical damage with Vengeance but have *no* effect on the Elemental damage caused by Vengeance.
  • Sources of Deadly Strike stack except from a weapon which is not being used to inflict that particular blow.
  • Different types of Critical Strike do *not* stack (e.g. Barbarian Weapon Masteries and Amazon Critical Strike).
  • There is no point to having more than a 100% chance of DS/CS.
  • Critical Strike and Deadly Strike have the same mechanics and only one of them can trigger on any given attack (so a player can't get quadruple damage)

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Critical Strike Runewords

Runewords Allowed Items Runewords Recipes Level Complete Stats
Peace 3 Socket Body Armor Shael Rune Shael Rune + Thul Rune Thul Rune + Amn Rune Amn Rune 29 4% Chance To Cast Level 5 Slow Missiles When Struck
2% Chance To Cast level 15 Valkyrie On Striking
+2 To Amazon Skill Levels
+20% Faster Hit Recovery
+2 To Critical Strike
Cold Resistance +30%
Attacker Takes Damage of 14
Melody 3 Socket Missile Weapons Shael Rune Shael Rune + Ko Rune Ko Rune + Nef Rune Nef Rune 39 +50% Enhanced Damage
+300% Damage To Undead
+3 To Bow and Crossbow Skills (Amazon Only)
+3 To Critical Strike (Amazon Only)
+3 To Dodge (Amazon Only)
+3 To Slow Missiles (Amazon Only)
20% Increased Attack Speed
+10 To Dexterity
Knockback
Insight 4 Socket Polearms/
4 Socket Staves		 Ral Rune Ral Rune + Tir Rune Tir Rune + Tal Rune Tal Rune + Sol Rune Sol Rune 27 Level 12-17 Meditation Aura When Equipped
+35% Faster Cast Rate
+200-260% Enhanced Damage
+9 To Minimum Damage
180-250% Bonus to Attack Rating
Adds 5-30 Fire Damage
+75 Poison Damage Over 5 Seconds
+1-6 To Critical Strike
+5 To All Attributes
+2 To Mana After Each Kill
23% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Critical Strike Damage

Level Chance to 2x Damage %
1 16
2 25
3 32
4 38
5 42
6 46
7 49
8 51
9 54
10 56
11 58
12 59
13 61
14 62
15 63
16 65
17 65
18 66
19 67
20 68

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