Warrior crit rate question

[Billbike]

Does dexterity affect how often crits happen? Or is it a flat rate. What is the rate?

[kaev]

Dex definitely affects the rate of crits and crips, I do not recall the formula. It doesn't matter a lot unless you're trying to solo or you are berzerking, normal tanking in a full group it won't affect your group's damage output all that much. It's worth a ton zerking tho, since the whole point is to get those crippling blows. never forget that the absolute best dex gear for a warrior is a shaman.

[Billbike]

Excellent. Thank you for your response.

[Billbike]

Anyone else have information they can contribute?

Come on all you high level warriors, chime in please.

[username17]

I did a quick search on TSW's forums but didn't find anything solid. Most of the information on there is post POP anyway so it's not too relevant.

The best thing I could find was a post on how to maximize Warrior DPS which has some references to Crit.
http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum...ad.php?t=20012

[Skittlez]

My 43 warrior is a Dex build. I'm sitting at 217 I think. He's a dark elf though and uses a suit of Enchanted Tier'Dal Plate and others to maximize his Dex. I think I have BiS till no-drop gear, but race specific.

I notice only a small difference at my level in DPs and crit chance. You would end up doing more DPs with 200+ str than Dex I am pretty sure. I tried using an Oggok Cleaver for crippling blows along with all types of weapons and it just never seemed to make that much of a difference.

The gear is also gonna cost you an arm and a leg.

[JayN]

dex only effects procs currently, sorry guys.

[Billbike]

Thanks for all the feedback, good to hear personal experiences and positions.

I googled around and found figures of aprox 120 dex = 1% to crit. Granted this was in a thread about live, and much later than classic, so it is probably irrelevant to p1999. There isn't a lot of info on this that I have seen.

Dex doesn't affect crit chance? Confirmed?

[kaev]

:shurg: Never tested it, but sure seemed to me I was getting more crits&crips with a 180 dex than 110 dex. Since I can't prove otherwise (my old logs are gone and I'm too lazy to run tests), I suppose I have to admit the possibility of confirmation bias.

[Bodybagger]

I feel like I remember seeing a parse that it did not... and that dex in general only effects procs, and normalizes bow dmg?