Critical Hits
Critical Hits are special instances of attacks. The Critical Hit Rate provides the chance at which they happen. Any attack that deals damage (for Gathering or Fighting) can be a critical hit. They increase the damage that would have been dealt by ~20%-25% and stagger the enemy. A critical hit will always deal at least a little more damage than the highest possible non-critical damage.
Critical Hit Rate
The total effective Critical Hit Rate depends on Luck, which is what is used to determine your Base Critical Hit Rate, along with Equipment Bonuses to provide multipliers to your Base Critical Hit Rate, and whether Crit Aid has been taken or not determines whether your Critical Hit Rate caps at 50% or 100%. Without using Crit Aid, the Critical Hit Rate is capped at 50%. The following is a list of values that your Base Critical Hit Rate will be depending on what amount of Luck your character has:
| Luck = 0
(Requires equipping |
Base Critical Hit Rate = 0% |
| Luck = 5 - 29 | Base Critical Hit Rate = 10% |
| Luck = 30 - 69 | Base Critical Hit Rate = 15% |
| Luck = 70 - 139 | Base Critical Hit Rate = 20% |
| Luck = 140+ | Base Critical Hit Rate = 25%+ |
Once you have your Base Critical Hit Rate given by your current Luck total, you can then find out your effective Critical Hit Rate by factoring the multipliers provided by your equipment with the effects of Critical Hit Rate. Remember that, without the use of Crit Aid, your effective Critical Hit Rate cannot exceed 50%.
| Critical Hit Rate before using Crit Aid (Caps at 50%) | = Base Critical Hit Rate * (Total Equipment Bonus) |
| Critical Hit Rate after using Crit Aid | = (Critical Hit Rate before using Crit Aid) + 50% |
Equipment Bonus
There are for Crafting Effects for equipment which affect the Critical Hit Rate.
| Critical Rate+ Effect | = 1.1x multiplier to critical hit rate |
| Critical Rate++ Effect | = 1.2x multiplier to critical hit rate |
| Critical Rate+++ Effect | = 1.5x multiplier to critical hit rate |
| Critical Rate++++ Effect | = 2x multiplier to critical hit rate |
The Total Equipment Bonus is the product of each Equipment Bonus that applies:
| Total Equipment Bonus | = (Equipment Bonus 1) * (Equipment Bonus 2) * (Equipment Bonus 3) * ... |