Critical Attack Bonus II?Follow

Critical hit damage is calculated differently for ranged attacks. It has a lower damage boost compared to melee crits, but is uncapped.

So ranged attacks are being affected by Critical Attack bonus to a larger degree than melee attacks?

According to wiki, a ranged attack gets a 25% damage bonus when it scores a critical hit. Also according to wiki, Critical Attack Bonus is +5% damage.

The 156 damage I had been getting should become 195 during a critical hit without any Critical Attack bonus traits.

If Critical attack bonus works by extending that multiplier to 30% (falling in line with a +5% bonus according to wiki), 156 damage should become 202. If it works by multiplying the critical hit damage by 1.05, it should instead become 204. However, my critical hits were doing 210 damage.

Using a critical hit multiplier of 35% instead of 25% (base multiplier + 5% for assumed Critical Attack Bonus I + 5% for assumed Critical Attack Bonus II), 156 damage becomes 210, which are the results I had been getting.

The only way I can see this happening (the critical hit being outside the maximum damage allowed by simply a 5% bonus, multiplicative or additive), is if the bonus is actually 10% instead of 5%, there is a second tier giving an additional 5%, or ranged attacks are somehow doubling the effect of the standard Critical Hit Bonus trait.

So my critical hits using Ungur should not do more than 204 damage on things that are piercing neutral? I'm getting 210 every time.

Ranged attacks are very consistent damage once you have a high enough attack value. I am, however, working on some more data samples, using varying jobs (keeping fSTR capped in each example, by isolating targets to the same low level monsters).

I'll be using a Ninja (No Critical Attack Bonus trait), a Dancer (Critical Attack Bonus I), and Thief (To test if Critical Attack Bonus II even exists). Just waiting on a few friends to log on and get un-busy so we can go throw stuff at things.

All 3 jobs will be using the same ranged weapon (Chakram, DMG:16) in an effort to keep the test as controlled as possible.

im not terribly sure. Just going by lolwiki. At some point ill just go shoot my ziskas or something with both rng and thf and see what the difference is. I dont trust wiki enough to go purely on that.

Great info! Thanks for testing. (Also confirms how the /RA crits work). I am assuming it rounds down in which the boost would (in theory) be 5% tier 1, 8% tier 2. If it rounds up (seems unlikely), it could be 7.5% which makes more sense from the tiered perspective (T1=5, T2=7.5, T3-10% etc) but that would require rounding up which SE never really does /shrug. But i would like to check with melee attacks to corroborate then numbers with /ra.

either way, we DO know that we get T2. How that works exactly were not quite there yet.