Critical Damage

Amplifies damage when landing critical hits. Critical Damage has a base value of 20% that cannot be reduced below this minimum, meaning all critical hits deal at least 120% of normal damage. Your effective Critical Damage is reduced by enemy Resist Critical Damage, but can be restored with Ignore Resist Critical Damage.

Overview

When you land a critical hit (determined by Critical Rate), your damage is multiplied by your effective Critical Damage. This creates a significant damage spike that makes critical builds extremely powerful.

Key Mechanics:

• Base critical damage is always 20% (cannot be reduced)
• Critical Damage stat adds to this base value
• Enemy Reist Critical Damage can reduce your effective critical damage
• You can counter enemy resist with Ignore Resist Critical Damage
• Only applies when critical hits occur

Effective Critical Damage Calculation

The effective Critical Damage calculation follows this priority:

1. Base Critical Damage: Always 20% minimum
2. Your Critical Damage Stat: Adds to the base
3. Enemy Resistance: Reduces your effective critical damage
4. Ignore Resistance: Counters enemy resistance

Effective Enemy Resist = max(0, Enemy Resist Critical Damage - Your Ignore Resist Critical Damage)
Effective Critical Damage = max(20, Your Critical Damage - Effective Enemy Resist)

Example Scenarios

Basic Example:

• Critical Damage: 80%
• No enemy resistance
• Result: 100% critical damage (20% base + 80% stat)
• Damage: 200% of normal damage on critical hits

Against Resistant Enemy:

• Critical Damage: 80%
• Enemy Resist Critical Damage: 30%
• No Ignore Resist Critical Damage
• Result: 70% critical damage (20% base + 80% - 30%)
• Damage: 170% of normal damage on critical hits

With Resistance Counter:

• Critical Damage: 80%
• Enemy Resist Critical Damage: 30%
• Ignore Resist Critical Damage: 25%
• Result: 95% critical damage (20% base + 80% - max(0, 30% - 25%))
• Damage: 195% of normal damage on critical hits

Minimum Protection:

• Critical Damage: 30% (very low)
• Enemy Resist Critical Damage: 50% (very high)
• Result: 20% critical damage (protected by minimum base)
• Damage: 120% of normal damage on critical hits

Typical Values

Critical Damage values vary significantly based on build focus:

• Minimum Effective: 20% (base protection)
• Early Game Target: 50-200%
• Mid Game Target: 200-600%
• End Game Target: >600%
• Maximum Practical: No hard cap, but diminishing returns vs. cost

Sources

• Primary Sources - Most Equipment Pieces with their various upgrades (Chaos, Divine, Extreme, Option Slots)
• Secondary Sources - A large number of progression systems available in-game
• Temporary Buffs - GM Buffs, Critical Potions, Other Temporary Buffs (Platinum Buffs, etc.)

Notes and Tips

• Synergy is Key: Critical Damage is less effective without sufficient Critical Rate
• Base Protection: The 20% base, that can not be bypassed
• Resistance Matters: High-end enemies always have critical damage resistance
• Cost vs. Benefit: Extremely high critical damage has diminishing returns
• Build Balance: Consider Normal Damage Up for non-critical hits in PvP scenarios

Related Stats

• Critical Rate - Determines how often critical damage applies
• Resist Critical Damage - Enemy defensive stat that reduces your critical damage
• Ignore Resist Critical Damage - Counters enemy critical damage resistance
• Normal Damage Up - Alternative damage boost for non-critical hits

Class-Specific Notes

All Classes:

• Critical Damage works identically for all classes
• Both sword and magic classes benefit equally from critical damage
• Force Classes naturally offer more base critical damage via their class bonuses.

Advanced Mechanics

Resistance Interaction:

• Ignore Resist Critical Damage can only reduce enemy resistance to 0
• Cannot create "negative resistance" for bonus damage
• Enemy resistance is applied after your critical damage stat
• The 20% base is protected and cannot be reduced by any resistance

PvE and Pvp Variants

Critical Damage has specialized variants that provide additional critical damage in specific content:

• PvE Critical Damage: Bonus critical damage against monsters and NPCs
• PvP Critical Damage: Bonus critical damage against other players

How it works:

• PvE Content: Your total critical damage = Base Critical Damage + PvE Critical Damage
• PvP Content: Your total critical damage = Base Critical Damage + PvP Critical Damage

These variants stack additively with your base Critical Damage before enemy resistance is applied. This gives you significantly higher critical hit damage in their respective content types.