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Could anyone at GGG confirm something about the 8% base crit node:

Will additive modifiers to base crit work? My assumption is that no, they become part of the new base value, and thus the value is always set to 8%. However, there are counter arguments that the true base is only the value listed on the weapon. All the additive modifiers still get summed up with the 8% base provided by the Slayer ascendancy.

So, if you socket your attack in an Elder chest with "attacks have +X% to critical strike chance," will the base still be 8%, or is that added on top?

Thanks!

If Mark or Bex could give clarification on:

Overwhelm (no grey note on explanation)
"Base Critical Strike Chance for Attack with Weapon is 8%"

Does this make all weapon type 8% before applying weapon's Critical Strike Chance mod, and able to make the weapon base crit even higher?

example, Terminus Est
Tiger Sword base crit% = 5%
Terminus with weapon mod boosted it to (7.50%~8.75%)

Now, if slayer holds Terminus Est with Overwhelm
does it make Tiger Sword base 8% first, then weapon mod and result:
Critical Chance 12%~14% (8% * 1.5~1.75 weapon mod)

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Mark_GGG wrote:

a

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Bex_GGG wrote:

b

thats a good question. cause it is possible that it hard caps it at 8% under all situations. the base crit that is

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xMustard wrote:

thats a good question. cause it is possible that it hard caps it at 8% under all situations. the base crit that is

I suspect it may be like Inquisitor "Ignore elemental resistances" and Veil of the Night "Elemental Resistances are Zero" - it literally sets base crit chance at 8% and doesn't allow anything else to affect that, meaning only "x% increased/reduced/more/less critical strike chance" will multiply. Make it only good for Starforge, really, but still a strong use case.

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adghar wrote:

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xMustard wrote:

thats a good question. cause it is possible that it hard caps it at 8% under all situations. the base crit that is

I suspect it may be like Inquisitor "Ignore elemental resistances" and Veil of the Night "Elemental Resistances are Zero" - it literally sets base crit chance at 8% and doesn't allow anything else to affect that, meaning only "x% increased/reduced/more/less critical strike chance" will multiply. Make it only good for Starforge, really, but still a strong use case.

This is what I suspect as well. It would make it strong for literally any 5% critical strike chance base weapon that is well rolled. In such a case, it's just 60% more critical strike chance. It opens you up to put more damage mods onto the weapon that just increase base damage (or have a chance to deal double damage, increase base attack speed, add crit multi, etc.).

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enoecarg wrote:

Slayer is no longer physical specialist. "Cannot take Reflected Physical Damage" should be moved to Gladiator.

That's actually a really good call-out. Berzerker still has his minor nodes as 'attack physical damage' although the rage mechanic is %increased attack damage. Slayer went generic, he should lose his reflect privileges.

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adghar wrote:

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xMustard wrote:

thats a good question. cause it is possible that it hard caps it at 8% under all situations. the base crit that is

I suspect it may be like Inquisitor "Ignore elemental resistances" and Veil of the Night "Elemental Resistances are Zero" - it literally sets base crit chance at 8% and doesn't allow anything else to affect that, meaning only "x% increased/reduced/more/less critical strike chance" will multiply. Make it only good for Starforge, really, but still a strong use case.

ya my presumption was it would be fixed at 8%, so you wouldnt get any use from something like a crit strikes gem. Which is pretty crazy for sure, if it gives u a free gem slot then its worth whatever that gem is, we look at "40% more damage, 10% more damage taken" on berserker... ok, well maybe you take this node and it allows u to skip crit strikes and get damage on full life for 49% more damage and we got an enemy crit reduction and a crit multi buff on the same node? no downside? ok...

potentially crazy powerful.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

potentially crazy powerful.

I know rite? I might actually have to roll slayer for once in my lifetime.

Good job GGG. Good job.

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