Question about Stalker team size crit bonus

First question: No. They use the Assassin's Focus mechanic outside of hide, and are guaranteed to crit from hide (for scale 7.0 damage).

Second question: The fast-cast Assassin's Strike takes the 2 second interrupt time out and does scale 2.76 damage, with a full damage critical.

Third question: Yes, they did; they also had that chance after a Placate, which could give you a double-critical on Assassin's Strike for scale 9.5 damage instead of scale 7.0.

Summary of Assassin's Focus:

• Each attack power in your primary* has a chance to build Assassin's Focus stacks based on its recharge.
• You can have at most 3 stacks of Focus at any one time.
• Each stack of Focus gives Assassin's Strike a 33 1/3% chance to critical, so it's 33.3%, 66.7%, and 100% chance with 1, 2, and 3 stacks.

Damage scale is what the Stalker AT modifier (melee_damage) is multiplied by to determine how much damage something does. The actual AT modifier is -55.61 at level 50 and varies by level, not 1.0; 1.0 is used to simplify things and compare relative values with other ATs** so you don't have to remember a whole chart. This means that a scale 7.0 attack would do 389.27 damage with no enhancements or +damage buffs against a mob with no resistance bonuses or penalties.

That answer it all?


Edit: forgot to include the footnote!
* - Pseudopet powers that deal damage, such as Lightning Rod, do not build Assassin's Focus.
** - After level 20 - prior to level 20 the relative ratios between ATs don't match their higher-level values.

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