Critical Hits Broken?

[bennyw2784]

I just noticed questing in Pel that my Rend "Devastating" hits do less damage than my "Critical" Rends. ~30% less damage. 16.7k vs 25k for simple 'criticals' This led me to testing other skills, and I noticed it on Blade Wall and Raging Blade.

What gives?

[Osglinthor]

Welcome to life of champs,it has been like this for quite some time now and the gap continues with new LI raise.

[Gorikon]

To be more precisely, the culprit is the "Critical Damage Multiplier" weapon legacy. It boosts your critical hits, but not devastates.

Critical hits get a 50% damage bonus by default, devastates get 100% bonus. As soon as the legacy bonus exceeds 50%, your crits hit harder than your devs. When maxxed, your crits get a whopping 166% damage bonus from the legacy, meaning your crit bonus is 216%.

Other classes have crit legacies and see that effect as well, but the champ legacy has the largest bonus, so the effect is more obvious.

Edit:
Since ppl will point out: You also get a bit crit damage from passive skills here and a bit of devastate damage from relics there, so the 50% threshold isn't a fixed value. That won't change the outcome, since the weapon legacy outperforms all other bonusses combined.