Best critical ever!

[sector24]

Check the critical in my signature.

[Zhuangzi]

Yep, that is definitely the best critical I've seen. I was getting around 20,000 quite regularly but no more than that. This just proves what I've been saying for a while now - Sprites and Lake Fairies are the best direct damage unit in the game. I'm interested in how you got over 40k damage. In my games I thought the upper limit for damage was 10 per sprite, i.e. 2000 Sprites = 20,000 damage. Did you have more Sprites than this or was the attack modifier even higher?

[sector24]

I'm not exactly sure how it got so high. I was using Isshara's Whip + Sword of Light + Silver Rapier, and they had morale 3. I had about 2250 Lake Fairies. So adding up all the bonuses it was something like this:

+29 Attack from hero
+30% attack from morale
+2250 fire damage from Isshara's Whip
+30% damage from silver rapier
-20% enemy defense from sword of light

I don't think I had any buffs on the Lake Fairies. With this setup I've been regularly landing 20,000+ non-crits and mid 30k crits, but this one was just off the charts.

[Zhuangzi]

Yes, it's the 30% extra damage from the Silver Rapier and the 20% less defense from the Sword of Light that must have done it - obviously the damage would be lower against non-Undead enemies. But that is about the perfect combination of factors! I wonder what the theoretical limit to damage would be...

I observed that the max actual damage my Sprites would do with a Critical was 10 per Sprite (this is including Anga's Ring of course). But that Critical must have been around 18 damage per Lake Fairy, which is phenomenal.

[Sandsai]

Hell fire is actually a pretty nice boost to the fairies, might wanna try that to boost some phat crits.

[Johannes]

Originally Posted by Sandsai

Hell fire is actually a pretty nice boost to the fairies, might wanna try that to boost some phat crits.

yup, got a 57600 crit with hellfire on, it was freakish though, a more normal one would be about 20-30k. Sometimes i use berserk on them but in most fights where it counts it's not ok to lose control like that ;p

[Johannes]

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

I wonder what the theoretical limit to damage would be...

I think it will be over 100k with the perfect setup. working on a game like this atm but got a bit bored of it so will see if it takes another week before screenshot
Can tell you straight away that it won't be fairies or sprites breaking the record.

[Leind]

Originally Posted by Johannes

I think it will be over 100k with the perfect setup. working on a game like this atm but got a bit bored of it so will see if it takes another week before screenshot
Can tell you straight away that it won't be fairies or sprites breaking the record.

Fairies & sprite are very fast & have no retaliation, they are very useful.

But for pure damage I guess you want to try the melee lvl1 thorn with a high level warrior, the thorn crow and similar helpful items, and take along some Inquisitor, shamans, necromancer & other casters to help buffing them and debuffing their targets.

The book of Dead summon can help debuffing the target too.

I'm sure it's possible to go over a 200K crit with some patience.

[Johannes]

Yes Leind I agree with all of it, the idea isn't a practical army (for which sprites/fairies work better) but a max crit like you guessed, does book of dead have any unique buff that you thought would help?

[jwallstone]

One thing that I haven't heard people talking about in the pursuit of ridiculously large critical strikes: the spell Helplessness. At max level, it reduces the targets defense by 60%, which can have a huge effect if cast on the target beforehand. That, combined with the silver rapier, can be pretty powerful.