I’ve been thinking about the long-term balance direction of the game, especially as builds and itemization expand. Right now we have Crit Chance + Crit Damage, which creates a multiplicative scaling (like known from other Games). Crit Chance × Crit Damage systems are fun in pure ARPG power fantasie…

My latest build is a crit build, and boy is it strong. All my armor uses crit chance, and with exalting, 60% empowerment gems, and a base 20% crit weapon, I’m at 100% crit. I think this is a bigger problem than crit damage scaling because even without it, lv 12 weapons are slapping. I was hoping the…

Thomas has to see this! @thomasmahler

Yes, crit stats are a huge problem at the moment. Players can easely reach 100% crit chance and deal way too much damage. It is also not well designed as all those crit enchantments are just flat bonuses, so that there is no thought process whether it will benefit your build/playstyle or not. Furt…

This post misses forest for the trees a little bit. Issue is not that crit scales to the moon - while it is slightly better than damage increase or armor pen it’s still around 10% more damage per enchantment. As ShortCat correctly states stacking all these stats on the same item is the real problem,…

I have been thinking that introducing soft caps, and even hard caps for crit chance would solve a lot of the issue here. Soft caps could come online around 70% crit chance, reducing anything above that by an amount and then more penalties at 80 and so on. It would balance the black pearl low life bu…

Don’t think crit scaling is that OP compared to other sources, maybe the numbers just need to be squished so it’s more a choice instead of an instant take. If it’s too weak with lower number give us a reason to crit apart from bigger damage, modifiers or traits that activate on crit or unique weapo…

Suggestion: Simplify Crit System – Remove Crit Damage as a Scaling Stat

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Here is the build: Flexible Crit Build

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Suggestion: Simplify Crit System – Remove Crit Damage as a Scaling Stat

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