Critical Damage | Elden Ring Wiki

Are all critical hits standard damage or they can be pierce or strike depending on weapon?

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Honestly, I'm a little disappointed that heavy thrusting weapons are bottom tier for crits, considering they're still thrusting weapons.

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can npc summons hit ripostes after a stagger

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Dagger talizman crit DMG +17% and weapon crit DMG+15% = 32% ? It's cumulative?

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Is any attack made after an enemy is vulnerable considered a crit? Or does it need to be the animation?

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Yeah, great example of avoiding fall damage there with a fall that doesn't even do any fall damage anyway due to the scripted floor breaking thing that these games like to do. Keep up the great work, wiki contributors.

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What if you have a buff to damage that wears out right after the animation starts but before the hit occurs

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Has dark dammamage been fixed for crits?

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gotta love how they could have easily displayed each weapons true critical multiplier (ie Misericorde could have displayed 4.4x {natural dagger crit plus it's unique crit mutiplyer}) but ofc has to have that FromSoft charm of hidden complexity to it's mechanics

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damn, Elden Ring has it's own version of the DS2 Well Skip?

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Ds3 chaos dagger pvp PTSD flashbacks

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Has this been updated to reflect the 1.10 changes?

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It would be nice to have a complete breakdown of what affects crit damage eg the various attack boosting talismans like winged sword and kindreds exultation. I should probably test it myself but maybe someone has done it already.

To answer some questions I've already seen, scaling does not affect crit damage whatsoever. This also means that two handing a weapon doesn't impact the crit whatsoever.

Infused weapons will always do the most crit damage because they have higher base damage.

Also this is completely unscientific but it seems as though defenses are significantly reduced during a crit but not negated. Enemies normally resistant to a type of damage will still take heavy crit damage, but will be affected more by a crit from a weapon they are weak to (it would seem)

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chad crit system, gives u a nice animation to cull em too!

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Why does my character get stuck in back stab animations while the invader just walks away from the attack and i deal no damage

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You also get 20% extra xp if killing with a critical hit.

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How is critical damage calculated?

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How does backstabs work if you're dual wielding? Which weapon does the critical hit damage come from?

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Does critical damage take the two-handing STR boost into account?

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FYI, the crit damage stat and how much damage a weapon does on a crit are only closely correlated. Roughly speaking, most weapons will deal 2x their listed damage on a backstab, and 3x their listed damage on a riposte. During a stance break, from my limited testing, it seems like many weapons first deal a normal attack that does 1x damage before a second hit that does the riposte damage, resulting in 4x damage overall. The crit damage stat appears to function as a % multiplier to these numbers. For example, if you were to use a weapon with 110% crit, then backstabs would deal 2.2x damage and riposts would deal 3.3x damage.
These values aren't exact, as different weapon classes or weapons in each class may fluctuate by 10% or so, but this rule is easy to remember and accurate enough to be useful.
The largest exceptions to these rules are daggers and the largest weapons (Great swords, Colossal swords, colossal weapons, great hammers, heavy thrusting swords). Not only do daggers have a higher crit stat than other weapons, but they also have 3x weapon damage multiplier for backstabs and a 4x weapon damage multiplier for ripostes. This means that if you parry an attack and riposte with a Misericorde, you will deal a massive 5.2x damage due to its 140% crit. This is also why daggers deal more crit damage than rapiers despite having the same crit value.
Backstabs with large weapons deal the normal 2x damage, but ripostes only deal 2.5x damage, most likely because of their high stance damage.

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I know this is a thing built into the souls game community, but a 'riposte' refers to a singular very quick attack performed specifically following a parry against said enemy's attack. It is not, and never will be, an attack you take during which the opponent/enemy is on the ground, stunned.

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Split damage is still king for crit hits, except in the occult scenerio on a pure arc build. Then it will hit a lil higher occult.. but every other spec has access to an elemental infusion so use that for your crits if you hold something for them in a slot

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Good gawd, does any1 realize that, while having cooperators, critical hits (bosses) will never equal the amount of dps effected by both host and cooperator(s) combined when they wail on the boss for that brief respite? Irritates the F outa me when I proc sleep on certain bosses, and the “hero” runs in a effects a critical hit.

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You forgot to add breaking an enemy's guard when they're using a shield.

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No Rogier's Rapier?

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Ohh Wow.... I'm really surprised i just discovered this , lol Lifesteal Fist ( The Ashe of War Skill for Fist weapons ).... And the Enescapeable Frenzy Grab Spell are infact effected by Crit DMG %. So you equip Misecorde 140% with a Seal and using the grab Frenzy you deal more damage.... While when you equip Dagger Talisman your Lifesteal Fist grab Skill also gains increased Damage yikes.... ( I guess these 2 are Critical Attacks since they are infact have their Lock-on Vulnerable Animations just exactly like Ripostes and Backstabs ).

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The higher your crit is the more damaging the frenzy flame grab dose

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Hey, you forgot to mention Reduvia which also has more than 100 crit (110). In the "Critical Damage and Weapons" section.

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You cannot perform a crit attack with a torch.... I am upset by this

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If you're frame perfect two players can perform a backstab and parry riposte at the same time, only gotten it to work on players though

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I GOT BACK UP AND PWNED HIM

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Why do shields have a crit number? Can you perform critical hits with shields?

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Usually when want to backstab i disable lock, pass by my enemy's side, and then lock on again so i can face their backs.
Unfortunately, sometimes my stupid camera locks onto some random dude in the background rather than the enemy i want to backstab (which will then give time for the enemy i wanted to backstab to turn towards my face, causing me to miss the opportunity)

I'm still not 100% sure, but from the few tests i've done, i've concluded that, for some reason, the lock on prioritizes enemies in the direction your CHARACTER is facing, not your CAMERA.

So if your character happens to be facing towards some random goat in the distance rather than the leyndell knight slightly to your left, there's a chance that you'll lock on to the stupid goat instead of your enemy (even though you pointed the camera at the knight)

Now i understand why the camera just feels so off at times.

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I know there have always been some very skilled players in all the soulsborne games, sekiro and now elden ring, but the video clip above of someone using a critical hit to negate any fall damage from a height that would otherwise be lethal, puts whomever that player was in the video clip on another level of skill completely.

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Do critical hits proc status effects immediately?

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does headshot with bow count as a crit?

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Does Elden Ring have the hidden motion values, like in DS3, that affect crit modifiers too?

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You can perform a critical move just after you dismount an enemy and he's still knocked down.

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The highland axe also has 110% crit

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Are grabs, from players and bosses considered crits?

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ripostes do 0 damage if u get hit the moment u enter the animation. makes parrying against ganks feel like ****. knowing fromsoft this is probably intentional.

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Tested Misericorde+25, at 80 DEX on omens in subterranean.

482 damage with current ash produced 1698 damage, 1969 with dagger talisman (116%)
I had heard it was (damage x crit modifier) + [(damage x crit modifier) x talisman] but that would come out to 1464 with talisman.
afaik omens aren't weak to piercing, so that extra 16% (1698/1464) could come from dexterity itself modifying critical damage as well, or the above formula is otherwise incorrect

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I just found out something. My fire claymore with 337 AR dealt 601 dmg( riposte ) to banished knight after I parried him but my fire burial scythe with 336 AR dealt 463 dmg ( riposte ) to the same enemy after i parried him... What the hell? Am I missing something important or weapons with stab animations just much better? Is it really the deal here?

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The Lordsworn's Greatsword should also be noted as a critical damage weapon.

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Can spells crit?

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If I have for example blood buildup on a weapon and i critical hit the Enemy dose he get the buildup?

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So let's say that i have a weapon that does 100 dmg and i use a temporary buff so it can do 150 damage and the critical hit is 140%. Will the crit damage be based on my initial weapon damage unbuffed or will it be based on my buffed weapon damage. Will I do 140 (100 * 1.4) extra damage or 210 (150 * 1.4) extra damage?

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I wish the lock-on reticle would have a minor Sekiro-like change when the circumstances are correct for when a light attack would instead trigger performing a Critical or a Backstab.

Especially as a sorcerer, it sucks to stagger a Golem & rush in to land the insta-kill critical, only to get in a couple light attacks instead because you were still moving too much or just slightly not in the right place. It's a LOT of stamina commitment to rush in that makes it hard to rush back out or dodge wake-up attacks compared to players who are already sticking closer to melee range and didn't burn that to get in close.

That being said, it also sucks when weak soldier enemies are manning those big ballistas, they have no idea you're behind them, and then instead of killing them instantly …you just annoy them with a single light hit.

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Anyone know the chance of critical hits and if there is anything to raise it?

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Anyone know the chance of critical hits and if there is anything to raise it?

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can bosses be backstabbed? is it boss specific?

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Could anyone explain how power stancing works in the aspect of damage? Does the damage stay the same but has double poise damage? How does the damage calculate if you power stance with two different weapons?

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Do weapon lvl affect crit dmg?

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Anyone know how elemental damage factors in? iirc in DS3 you could entirely bypass elemental defenses with crits, curious if it’s the same here. Tryna decide if I should just leave a Keen infusion on my Misercorde or do something like Lightning for it

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Anyone know if Crit multiplier is based on just base damage of weapon, or full scaling damage?

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The rapier and the plain dagger seem the be only 130c weapons I can find. Are there other 130+ weapons or are those two it for crit builds?

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The rapier and the plain dagger seem the be only 130c weapons I can find. Are there other 130+ weapons or are those two it for crit builds?

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The jelly fish shield skill. It's will increase your backstab damage. I was farming doing 699 backstab when I used it's skill I was hitting around 830.

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I just stabbed someone in the back while invading ; ) and they took almost no damage, and after my regular dagger attacks hurt them much more. I want to know what caused this.

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I like to call the posture break critical a "frontstab". It seems appropriate somehow.

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Im confused I have a Miséricorde that sometimes does 840 crit damage and other times does 670. Anyone have an explanation for what is going on?

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Seems crit is no longer solely calculated by crit damage. My +6 scythe does more crit damage than a +140 crit dagger at +0.

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How do you perform it? I broke a boss stance before but can't seem to trigger the critical hit. I press left click(light attack) no animation only normal attacks.

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