Archer build

[Bizz]

I was thinking about making archer, but I only played him in single til lvl 15 or smt... I was doing 3/2 with Q/P and now I want to know what is more important: ap or crit? because most of archers skills can crit and I was thinking about making a "lol I always crit" char.
So I was thinking is there a max crit point? and how does crit bonus is calculated from stat? MB there is a point when spending points in P would be worthless or at least Q will give a lot more... So any ideas?

 

[Werhampfter]

I prefer to skill AP, Crit not increase the dmg from your spells. Your spells are based on AP and when u see Based on Critical then it means that your spell can critical and nothing more. I think it useless to skill Critical.
Just get Quickness.

 

[Bizz]

Yes, I know that if spell is based on critical that only means that it can crit, but what I mean I still get some AP from items and I was thinking about rising crit to 80% or smt to be able to crit most of time... But most likely only way to test it is gel lvl 30 archer and hope 4 stat bug...

 

[Werhampfter]

^^ hehe I think there is something like a limit for critical but its generell a nice idea

 

[muzzel]

the problem is that the critdmg is imo calculated like this:
basecrit + (ap * const.)
means -- if u only skill perc u have low crit dmg. Maybe you may have 80% crits - but they dont deal much dmg.

Short examples:
1. skill quick:
normal dmg: 500
crit chance: 10%
crit dmg: 800

2. skill perc:
normal dmg: 200
crit chance: 80%
crit dmg: 350

which means that you have more crits but each of them deal less dmg... So to your question - i think its not recommended to make a pure-perc char.

 

[Bizz]

Well il see in some time... Right now I was making a full Q char and il w8 till respec will be added or when my stats will reset them self to see.
Also I noticed this thing: I played pyro, pally and cleric and when I hit a new set lvl (4 items that sold in town, like lvl 6, 13, etc) I had enough secondary stats 4 all items (like energy 4 pally and str 4 casters) but when I got lvl 13 as archer I had only 23 str, when I needed 25. So I wanted to ask are there any other chars that cant equip items if they go pure main stat?

 

[Werhampfter]

no... normaly you can equip every item when u just skill your main attribute... never played Ranger... maybe at him it change but wayne get some levels more then you get auto more str