Critical Damage Reduction

[coldhart]

<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">You can now mitigate critical attacks done to you. Critical attacks work as before but the player can mitigate the amount done to them by having higher agility for melee classes or higher intelligence for priests and mages. In addition, you will now find certain creatures can critical against you. They will use their calculated damage times their critical multiplier to determine their damage. PvP based combat will now also follow this formula. Players against an npc will continue taking the higher of max damage plus one or damage times critical multiplier. <span style="font-size: small; color: #0000ff;">There are also some items which now reduce the amount of critical damage you take while in combat</span>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">I have found many references to this but haven't been able to find the items. Can anyone tell me what to look for or where/how to search for them?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">thanks much</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Coldhart</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p>

[bcc123000]

<p>Lvl2 Shard armor?</p>

[simpwrx02]

<p>That is mainly refering to TSO T8 top end armour and mobs.  I do not believe that any non T8 mobs got any of the crit code attached to them, well at least purposely, I am sure a few have it un-intentionally.</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p>The one thing I don't get is the way they describe mobs getting criticals like something they didn't already have since mobs have always been able to critical, their criticals just do more damage now.</p>

[Geothe]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The one thing I don't get is the way they describe mobs getting criticals like something they didn't already have<strong> since mobs have always been able to critical</strong>, their criticals just do more damage now.</p></blockquote><p>Erm... no they havent.</p>

[simpwrx02]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The one thing I don't get is the way they describe mobs getting criticals like something they didn't already have since mobs have always been able to critical, their criticals just do more damage now.</p></blockquote><p>The removed mobs criting before I even started playing because a AE crit would 1 shot most of the players attacking the mob.   SO mobs haveing the ability to crit is a new ability.</p><p>Sort of like how if you dont have enough crit mit gear and a mob crits you drop like a sack of potatoes.</p>

[Sabutai]

<p><cite>simpwrx02 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The one thing I don't get is the way they describe mobs getting criticals like something they didn't already have since mobs have always been able to critical, their criticals just do more damage now.</p></blockquote><p>The removed mobs criting before I even started playing because a AE crit would 1 shot most of the players attacking the mob.   SO mobs haveing the ability to crit is a new ability.</p><p>Sort of like how if you dont have enough crit mit gear and a mob crits you drop like a sack of potatoes.</p></blockquote><p>correct, I believe they removed crits from the game when the contested mob in the Isle of Mara had it.  They replaced it with double attack, or maybe that was left in, can't recall.  But that was the last mob that had crits.</p>

[Thunndar316]

<p>Crit Mitigation is on T2 Legendary shard armor and Fabled TSO drops as well as Fabled TSO merchant armor.</p><p>Unfortunately though the 10 critical mitigation you get from a full suit of T2 Legendary is only about 25% of the mitigation you get fom a single piece of Fabled merchant armor. </p><p>Hardly worth the effort of obtaining 150+ shards for a T2 set but I did it anyway <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Lethe5683]

<p>I definatly remember seeing the final boss in re2 critical hit me before this expansion, I know that for a fact although I can't think of any other time I've actually seen it say in the log that a mob critted.</p>

[Meirril]

<p><cite>Thunndar316 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Crit Mitigation is on T2 Legendary shard armor and Fabled TSO drops as well as Fabled TSO merchant armor.</p><p>Unfortunately though the 10 critical mitigation you get from a full suit of T2 Legendary is only about 25% of the mitigation you get fom a single piece of Fabled merchant armor. </p><p>Hardly worth the effort of obtaining 150+ shards for a T2 set but I did it anyway <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>I'd seriously hope you didn't collect a set of tier 2 fabled <em>just</em> for the crit mittigation. It makes great appearance gear too!</p><p>More seriously, the +mittigation for tanking classes is very nice. Most of the 5 peice bonuses for other classes are nice too.</p>