Changes: Critical Strike

Revision as of 13:57, 10 March 2019

Critical Strike is a warrior's Two-Handed talent from the Pommel Strike tree in Dragon Age: Origins.

Information

Critical Strike is executed at +5 attack. If the strike connects, it is an automatic critical hit that will kill a non-boss opponent outright if its health is equal to or below 20%. It does normal critical damage otherwise. Source: talent_constants_h.nss.
Conjuration time: 1s.
80 additional threat is supposed to be drawn from the target. As of patch 1.02, only damage-based threat is drawn.

Notes

Activation base is in stamina and values vary with fatigue%.
Mighty Blow is a tier 1 talent with a 20s cooldown, that hits at +10, causes an auto-crit, and staggers enemies, interrupting their melee auto-attacks (it won't interrupt any talents or spells). Critical Strike is a tier 4 talent with a 60s cooldown, that hits at +5, causes an auto-crit, and can finish off normal or lieutenant rank enemies below 20% hp. This comparison speaks for itself. A lieutenant rank creature under 20% hp that would warrant a Critical Strike attempt (instead of using Sunder Arms, for example) is yet to be discovered. The talent is useful as the second auto-crit when Mighty Blow fails to stun or you just need to deal a lot of damage as fast as possible, though.
Very useful when combined with later tier talents based on crits, such as Stunning Blows and Destroyer.

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-|style       =  {{{style|}}}
+|style       = {{{style|}}}
-|name        =  [[Critical Strike]]
+|name        = [[Critical Strike]]
-|type        =  [[Two-Handed talents (Origins)#Pommel Strike tree|Two-Handed]] (Pommel Strike tree)
+|type        = [[Two-Handed talents (Origins)|Two-Handed]] ([[Two-Handed talents (Origins)#Pommel Strike tree|Pommel Strike]] tree)
-|icon        =  Talent 2h criticalstrike.png
+|icon        = Talent 2h criticalstrike.png
-|description =  The character makes a single massive swing at the target, gaining a bonus to attack. If the strike connects, it is an automatic critical hit, possibly killing the opponent outright if its health is low enough.
+|description = The character makes a single massive swing at the target, gaining a bonus to attack. If the strike connects, it is an automatic critical hit, possibly killing the opponent outright if its health is low enough.
-|effect type =  Activated
+|effect type = Activated
-|range       =  Personal
+|range       = Personal
-|activation  =  40
+|activation  = 40
-|cooldown    =  60s
+|cooldown    = 60s
-|requires    =  34 strength <br> Master Combat Training
+|requires    = 34 strength <br> Master Combat Training
-}}</onlyinclude>
+|image = Critical_Strike.jpg}}</onlyinclude>
-<noinclude>
+'''Critical Strike''' is a [[Warrior (Origins)|warrior]]'s [[Two-Handed talents (Origins)|Two-Handed]] [[talents (Origins)|talent]] from the [[Two-Handed talents (Origins)#Pommel Strike tree|Pommel Strike]] tree in ''[[Dragon Age: Origins]]''.
-{{See| Also [[Two-Handed Talents]], [[Talents]], [[Warrior]], [[Ability Mechanics]]}}
 == Information ==
+* {{:Critical Strike|style=iconmini}} is executed at {{ColorPositiveStat|+5 attack}}. If the strike connects, it is an automatic critical hit that will kill a non-boss opponent outright if its health is equal to or below 20%. It does normal critical damage otherwise. Source: talent_constants_h.nss.
-<!-- Talent Mechanics -->
+* Conjuration time: 1s.
-* The character makes a single massive swing at the target, with +5 attack. If the strike connects, it is an automatic critical hit, possibly killing non-boss opponents outright if its health is equal to or below 20%.
+* 80 additional [[threat]] is supposed to be drawn from the target. As of patch 1.02, only damage-based threat is drawn.
-* Conjuration time: 1 s.
-* 80 additional [[Threat]] is supposed to be drawn from the target. As of Patch 1.02, only damage-based Threat is drawn.
 == Notes ==
-* Activation base is in {{ColorStamina/Talent|Stamina}} and values vary with [[fatigue]]%.
+* Activation base is in {{ColorStamina/Talent|stamina}} and values vary with [[fatigue]]%.
+* {{:Mighty Blow (Origins)|style=iconmini}} is a tier 1 talent with a 20s cooldown, that hits at {{ColorPositiveStat|+10}}, causes an auto-crit, and staggers enemies, interrupting their melee auto-attacks (it won't interrupt any talents or spells). {{:Critical Strike|style=iconmini}} is a tier 4 talent with a 60s cooldown, that hits at {{ColorPositiveStat|+5}}, causes an auto-crit, and can finish off normal or lieutenant rank enemies below 20% hp. This comparison speaks for itself. A lieutenant rank creature under 20% hp that would warrant a {{:Critical Strike|style=iconmini}} attempt (instead of using {{:Sunder Arms|style=iconmini}}, for example) is yet to be discovered. The talent is useful as the second auto-crit when {{:Mighty Blow (Origins)|style=iconmini}} fails to stun or you just need to deal a lot of damage as fast as possible, though.
-* Many Talents and Spells are more powerful than the description suggests ([[Punisher]], [[Sunder Arms]]/[[Sunder Armor|Armor]], [[Arrow of Slaying]]). This one, however, is quite the opposite. It is truly just a single swing done with a bonus to attack that criticals if it hits, causing a death-blow to any non-boss (white or yellow) target if its health is below 20%. If one takes into consideration that any "white" creature which is below 20% health should die from a two-handed warrior's swing anyway (that's the point of wielding a two handed weapon - slow swings, big numbers), this fourth-tier&nbsp;ability turns out to be worse than the&nbsp;first-tier [[Mighty Blow]].
-* Very useful when combined with later tier talents based on crits, such as Stunning Blows and Destroyer.
+* Very useful when combined with later tier talents based on crits, such as [[Stunning Blows]] and [[Destroyer (Origins)|Destroyer]].
+== See also ==
+* [[Ability mechanics]]
+[[es:Golpe critico]]
-</noinclude>
 [[Category:Dragon Age: Origins talents]]