Diablo – How does crit affect beam spells and DOTs

diablo-3

How are beam spells(e.g. Desintegrate(wizard)) and DOTs (e.g. Haunt(witch doctor)) affected by critial strike chance?

I played with my wizard and i never saw a beam crit nor a DOT (e.g. meteor AoE after the impact). BUT i saw the DOT of the Meter affect my cooldowns via Critical Mass passive (chance to reduce cooldowns by 1 second upon crit). I didnt test the same with a beam spell.

Best Answer

According to some reading on the official forums, there is a mixed consensus on whether DoTs/channels are critting. Some, like you, have noticed the side effects of crits in some DoTs. Some people say they see the bigger yellow crit numbers with channeled spells, and some say they don't.

But the current Blizzard "Known Issues" post says that:

Combat

Damage over time debuffs are not benefiting from items that grant crit chance.

Source

...so clearly DoTs are meant to crit, even if they aren't now. I suspect this applies to channeled spells too.

I do not see this topic mentioned on the current Hotfixes List or in the Patch 1.0.2 info, so I am not sure when it will be further addressed.

Related Topic