Staff + Critical Hits

[honoraryorange]

I might be really new to Stalkers and misunderstanding, but it seems like Staff doesn't get as much mileage out of crits as other primaries.

 

Am I right that a crit is based on essentially a combination of the normal damage of an attack plus its recharge?

 

What I noticed with Staff was that it has a lot of attacks that are multiple hits. Only the first 'hit' of each attack crits and often for fairly little damage. Is it missing out on crit damage or is this damage baked into that first hit? If so, it seems fairly low, especially on their 32 attack Sky Splitter.

 

Am I correct here or is it just my perception?

[Justisaur]

It should be doing approximately the full damage of the power added to the first damage, not counting enhancement damage procs or Perfection of Body though.  Check your combat log, it sounds like it's probably your perception.

[honoraryorange]

Thanks! I meant to come back and post an update and you're right, or at least close to it.

 

Sometimes the crits don't seem to register properly in the combat log, even though I can see their health go down from it.

 

The other part was definitely perception coming from a TW Scrapper :) Talk about a damage difference. Staff is so much fun though.