I know this is a very old discussion and nobody seems to know what's exactly going on but I'm taking my chances.

I did try to test with a rogue friend of mine if crits can be dodged. He hit me 100 times with 19.56% crit rate and critted 19 many, then I activated monkey, did it again and this time he critted 22 many out of 100. So the dodges don't seem to effect his crits at all. I'm dodging most of his attacks but the crits are coming on the way. So from these 2 tests I'd guess that you can't dodge a crit. But can you parry it or can he miss one of his crits? How does it work?

http://tpr-wow.wiki.xs4all.nl/index....hysical_combat

other than that, 100 swings is way to small a sample

Yes I know. I told my friend that we need at least a 1000 to figure this out. But it was a short test. Still although I was dodging many many many of his attacks, his crit rate was the same rate he has. But now I check the link and it seems everything is there. Thanks for the post.

No, they cannot be dodged, parried, or miss; because then those hits wouldn't be crits, they'd be a dodge, parry, or miss.

There's a bit of empirical evidence available (I think some of the proofs have even been posted around here) that suggests wow's hit types are tabular, ie..: roll 1-1000, and depending upon where your roll lands you will either hit, crit, miss, be dodged, or be parried.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Formulas:Crit...miss_or_not.3F discusses this in detail, might want to check it out.

roll your d20 crit check

There's more than just empirical evidence. It has been confirmed several times on the official boards that melee attacks have a single roll.

Of course crits can be dodged/parrier/missed, since dodge, parry and miss have a higher priority on the roll table than crit.
Yet first you have to kick off normal hits from the table before a crits get touched.

Go test it with a warrior who pops up recklessness and a rogue with evasion at the same time. Critrate should be ~100%, but the warrior will hardly land any swing on the rogue due to the huge dodge rate. If he lands though, it will be a crit for sure.

And btw. for magic attacks the hit table seems to be different. Here indeed a magical attack first has to be a hit, before it can be a crit (read that somewhere in the mage forums in a sticky thread).

The Game checks wether your strike is missed, parried, dodged or blocked according to the following table, then the crit "modifier" applies.

The Crit has not been parried / dodged / blocked / been missed, the Hit has :>

Its not a blue sticky, and incorrent in that aspect. Magical attacks works in the same way with hit/crit/"miss" (full resist). For non-binary spells there is additional check for partial resist.

If you dodge 80 % of the attacks, the incoming hits will be calculated hits or crits.
If the enemy strike you 100 times and he lands 20 of them because of your avoidance, of the 20 there are 20 % crit and 80 % hits - you will take 4 crits.
(All "calculations" are theorectical :>)