Dark Miasma providing Stalkers with quicker Hide?
Were any of the mobs held or slept? We have a 20% chance to crit on them if so, at least I think we do.
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Dark Miasma has a group stealth power called Shadow Fall, but as far as I know that wouldn't place you back in hide faster than the normal ten seconds. but then I've also never tested that out. more likely what happened is that the mobs you were targetting were held. Dark Miasma has a single target hold, petrifying gaze. I don't think you have a chance to crit on feared mobs, so it prolly wasn't fearsome stare, DM's fear cone (which is a spectacular power, btw)
Most status effects on targets will give you a chance to crit out of hide. Its actually our inherent power. Read the assassination info for the exact explaination.
I'm not sure what power was placing the status on the foes you were crit'ing, but the status crit was what you were seeing.
Teaming with a dominator will make this effect much more noticable.
Most status effects on targets will give you a chance to crit out of hide. Its actually our inherent power. Read the assassination info for the exact explaination.
I'm not sure what power was placing the status on the foes you were crit'ing, but the status crit was what you were seeing.
Teaming with a dominator will make this effect much more noticable.
Most status effects on targets will give you a chance to crit out of hide. Its actually our inherent power. Read the assassination info for the exact explaination.
I'm not sure what power was placing the status on the foes you were crit'ing, but the status crit was what you were seeing.
Teaming with a dominator will make this effect much more noticable.
Something to test, shadowfall grants stealth. I wonder if the crits work when stealth is active, even if you arent hidden.
This could be a bug, that the devs didnt intend, depending on how they handle stealth vs hide in the programming.
Dark Miasma has a hold.
Stalkers get a chance (just a chance mind you) to crit on targets that are held or asleep. But not stunned. No chance to crit on stunned, immoblized or knocked down target.
*The more you know*
Thanks all. I will see what happens the next time I am teamed up with a Dark Miasma corruptor.
Dark Miasma's Shadowfall power has a lower suppress time on Stealth. Stealth is NOT what is needed for Criticals; Hide is. Hide is different from Stealth and does a few different things.
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I also noticed that one time "Critical" came up twice when I attacked out of Hide. I have no idea if this was actually twice the critical damage, but I since I had seen people mention this before I thought I would mention it.
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This has happened to stalkers without Shadow Fall or Arctic Fog present. Some Stalker attacks have a baseline chance to critical regardless of hide. For now that can go off at the same time as the hide critical. Thus you see two criticals.
I've noticed that my stalker can start his AS animation before hidden shows up on my screen. As long as it goes off after hidden shows up I will critical. I'm guessing that this is what you were seeing. In a group this is more likely to happen since you can attack mobs whose attention is on somebody else.
I was on two teams last night with Corruptors that were using Dark Miasma powers (I really am not familiar with this line so I am not sure which one) and I noticed that I was doing criticals with my stalker attacks at times where I was not Hidden. It was not consistant, but it would happen occasionally if I waited just a moment or two before an attack (a good deal less then the 10 seconds for Hide to come back on).
I also noticed that one time "Critical" came up twice when I attacked out of Hide. I have no idea if this was actually twice the critical damage, but I since I had seen people mention this before I thought I would mention it.