Busting two myths about BG

[popperz]

Myth 1: Crimson death (CD) does not add the crit to BG, but only to the allies (since the tooltip claims "to others")
Myth 2: BG skill Force of Fury is such an amazing skill cause it gives insane anticrit (since why not and the tooltip is sexy)

Result in image:
1) Indeed CD increases crit chance and BG is affected
2) The anticrit is absolute rubbish. And less crit you have the less the ability is worth.

https://ibb.co/Rc4BXJP

[TreefAM]

The second one is interesting, I wonder what calculations are mixed in when you use force of fury

[wachlarz]

If asw have easy 60% crit chance. Crit resist its ok

[Omegus]

FoF not being a flat reduction is very interesting, and also a giant slap in the face to one of the few things people thought BGs were good at. I would assume it has to do it before flat crit chance reduction, otherwise if someone was at -10% to be crit and had FoF on them then it would put them at -5.5%, i.e. make it worse!

BG players: did you know this? Did you lie about it to increase your chances of getting into groups and warbamds?

If asw have easy 60% crit chance. Crit resist its ok

Look at the image in the OP to see what the skill actually does.

[popperz]

If asw have easy 60% crit chance. Crit resist its ok

It's not reduction of enemy's crit rate. It's reduction of your chance to be critically hit. So if you have 0% - u get em 0

[Omegus]

If asw have easy 60% crit chance. Crit resist its ok

It's not reduction of enemy's crit rate. It's reduction of your chance to be critically hit. So if you have 0% - u get em 0

This is probably the only flat crit modifier that is multiplicative rather than additive though.

edit: this also explains why from a healing point of view PVE Black Guards using this tactic tend to be squisher than I would otherwise expect them to be.

[TreefAM]

And here I started playing around with RoR.builders - Black Guard
As a 2h bg. OH well, back to crimson death.

[normanis]

byt still crimson death is good better than ib

[popperz]

This is probably the only flat crit modifier that is multiplicative rather than additive though.

I am afraid to test Crush the Weak. I will just leave it untested. I want to believe I make an impact on enemy's dps.

[Omegus]

This is probably the only flat crit modifier that is multiplicative rather than additive though.

I am afraid to test Crush the Weak. I will just leave it untested. I want to believe I make an impact on enemy's dps.

You do... it's just that the impact could be -4% crit in real terms rather than -20%

I'm curious to know if the Marauder's 10% increase to be critically hit (the penalty on Feeding on Fear tactic) is multiplicative on a class that can stack crazy init. 10% chance to be crit plus this tactic should be 20% chance to be crit... but what if it's just 11% instead?