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Tehom · 06-18-2010, 01:49 PM

steelbadger wrote:

Chath@Antonia Bayle wrote:
I have a number of parses where I had 101 crit chance and failed to crit on trash mobs in Lab and Palace.
I've checked through my parses, I have 100% crit against all trash mobs in labs (and what trash mobs in Palace? Ring event mobs?).
But I'm unable to test in a raid situation as I'm a Guardian and thus find it almost impossible to find gear that doesn't have crit on it. Raids are never a good place for reliable testing, there's too many variables both known and unknown.
I really want to find more about the nature of the crit mit thing that some named mobs have though. It seems awfully arbitrary.

Yeah, the ring event mobs from the first two names. Although there's a lot of variables, most of them are pretty easy to be aware of aside from things like players being out of range of having their buffs on you when those buffs are scrolled off, so there's no visual indicator, or damageless debuffs on mobs that are beyond the icon limit. Although it's a little tedious you can even tell that just by reading logs if you know the spell effect messages. The difficulty is generally just coming up with a timeline of when things happen and what effects were active when different events occur.

06-18-2010, 01:49 PM	#53
Tehom Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,171	steelbadger wrote: Chath@Antonia Bayle wrote: I have a number of parses where I had 101 crit chance and failed to crit on trash mobs in Lab and Palace. I've checked through my parses, I have 100% crit against all trash mobs in labs (and what trash mobs in Palace? Ring event mobs?). But I'm unable to test in a raid situation as I'm a Guardian and thus find it almost impossible to find gear that doesn't have crit on it. Raids are never a good place for reliable testing, there's too many variables both known and unknown. I really want to find more about the nature of the crit mit thing that some named mobs have though. It seems awfully arbitrary. Yeah, the ring event mobs from the first two names. Although there's a lot of variables, most of them are pretty easy to be aware of aside from things like players being out of range of having their buffs on you when those buffs are scrolled off, so there's no visual indicator, or damageless debuffs on mobs that are beyond the icon limit. Although it's a little tedious you can even tell that just by reading logs if you know the spell effect messages. The difficulty is generally just coming up with a timeline of when things happen and what effects were active when different events occur.