Halp! Please help me understand these numbers

[Estean1]

<p>Ok.  I THOUGHT I was understanding all the changes to crit chance, crit avoidance, stats etc and how they functioned together but today I was looking at my ACT and am pretty confused again. </p><p>Ok I will set the stage -  My guild is raiding the x2 in Tower of Frozen Shadow.  We are killing the first named (hits really hard but not much else.)  According to a post in this forums here  <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=495921  " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...921  </a> Generally you have to have 170 or higher in TOFS to crit 100% on the mobs in there. </p><p>OK here are my stats in raid</p><p><img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m166/Estean/EQ2_000039.jpg" width="393" height="493" /></p><p><img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m166/Estean/EQ2_000040.jpg" width="395" height="490" /></p><p>Now..  We are killing the first named in there which is  Xalgoti - He puts out about 15.8 k dps.  He has a buff on him that says he has 120 percent potency and 120 crit bonus if you examine it. </p><p>My crit chance is 187% -  according to everything I know I should be critting on this fairly well.  Even if not 100 percent then it should be a higher number.  Not according to my act</p><p><img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m166/Estean/MoreCritpercentage.jpg" width="799" height="522" /></p>

[Estean1]

<p><img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m166/Estean/critpercentage.jpg" width="800" height="711" /></p>

[Estean1]

<p>Im doing 5136 heals per second which is pretty intense but look at my crit percentages?  My overall heal crit is 10%??</p><p>If you look at the break down my two main ward spells which are most of my healing are 12% on my group ward and 18% on my single target?  When I look at melee crit its much higher.. I just don't understand what I"m looking at here and why my crit percentage is so low.. can anyone help me please?</p>

[Darkor]

<p>Does the mob put a crit debuff on you that reduce your crit chance between 60 and 90%? Some encounter do that, i just dont remember if this one did it.</p>

[Karelyn]

<p>The low crit rate on wards is down to the way they get logged.</p><p>Wards determine whether they crit at the time that they are applied , which determines the overall amount that they will be able to absorb. However there is no special message for that will indicate whether a crit has happened.</p><p>The wards don't register crits at for each hit absorbed , because at that stage they are just using up the capacity that was determined when the ward was first applied.</p><p>The only time wards show up as critting is when their duration runs out , and they provide a heal equal to the unused part of the ward.</p><p>Also overall crits for damage or heals will typically be lower than 100% anyway because of all the procs that can never crit.</p>

[Talazar]

<p>When we're in there tonight toss in a bunch of direct target heals and see how they do.</p><p>Also, sign up for tonight dork =P</p>

[Banditman]

<p>Wards don't log as crit.  Procs do not crit.  You can't simply look at a 10,000 foot view and get accurate, informed information.  Most likely, your crits are where they should be.</p>