Yes.

Important distinction too, due to the corresponding existence of a crit cap (max crit = 100 - miss - dodge - parry - block - glance, ~30% + +hit from the back, 20% + +hit in the front).

Frostbolt is close to its default coefficient: .81 instead of .86. I can't remember what CoC gets off the top of my head. :/

Haven't checked recently, but I think it was 3/7 * 1/3 * .8 (instant cast, AoE, strong snare).

Frost Nova has a special modifer--it gets almost nothing. Otherwise my R1 Frost Nova would be hitting for well over 100.

At least this part of what you said is not correct in my experiences (for a knockback mob it usually is but that is because the next person was lowe then the tank before the knockback). Usually if you have something that priests pulled aggro on it will make the fade rounds where each priest fades it onto the next one.

Does level affect spell multiplier? It certainly doesn't seem to for R5 Frostbolt.

There's a cutoff. (Is it 20? 30?) Any skill that you learned below that level cutoff receives a drastically reduced +dam/heal contribution.

Rank 5 FB is learned past level 20. Any spell learned before 20 gets much less +damage/healing added to it.

Edit: Was too slow, but it is level 20 for the cut-off.

One thing I've seen in several combat-mechanics threads, including this one, is the assertion that crits can't be blocked, dodged or parried.
And up until now I've taken that more or less as a given, especially since I haven't ever seen it happen myself and so many people who seem fairly knowledgeable says that's how it works.

Just today, though, I saw the following message in my combat-log:
(Sorry about the "some number" part there, but I'm working from memory has I haven't managed to locate the screenshot of it yet).

What's going on here?

Is there some oddity happening, or have people been mistaken about this mechanic? Or has something changes recently?


EDIT: Aaand, I'm a bit of a muppet and pressed the wrong button when taking the screenshot and by the time I realized it had scrolled past out of my chat-window, so unfortunately I have no actual proof of this. I am, however, 100% sure I didn't misread it, as I was very surprised to see it and triple-checked before trying to screenshot it.

That is going from a Player -> Mob, so it may work differently going from Mob -> Player. Best way to determine this is to unequip all your defense gear and get something to hit you while you're blocking.

As i recall, someone did this (I don't know what their defense was while testing this though) during the bugged shield block period on one of the mobs in the blasted lands and over 1000 hits blocked none were crits.

**Looking for the link to the post in these forums about it **

Edit - Ok so it was deadwind pass and 2000 hits.

http://forums.elitistjerks.com/viewtopic.php?id=6435

Yeah, sorry. I have to clean that up a bit about the differences between mob vs. player and player vs. mob.

Right, Min.