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[quote=laurico]35%. The only AB skill that gives % critical chance is soul shooter expert, 45% with hyper crit.

As with AB you want to get 100% critical rate on endgame, aiming for the 30% critical rate inner(or 2x% crit one) is probably your best bet to reach that amount, if you can reach 100% crit without inner ability then go for the -1 attack speed inner.[/quote]

I really can't think of anyway that an Angelic Buster could hit 100% critical chance without 30% inner ability unless they're really collecting crit lines with their potentials...in which case that line is almost always better spent on atk%, boss%, pdr%, etc...even stat%...

Even with all the char cards, link skills...with the notable exception of the beast tamer link which is and has been entirely unavailable to create for a year or more...and 30% crit chance for inner ability, I still rely on one 9% crit chance line on my Emblem's bonus potential to get firmly to 100% crit chance. btw, you do get a 10% crit chance hyper skill on Angelic Buster.

But yeah, until I can create a Beast Tamer and get the link skill I'm stuck using a bonus potential line for at least 7% crit chance in order to hit that 100% crit chance milestone. You can also mass make or buy Exceptional Concentration potions for a 2 hour long boost of 10% critical chance...I did that for a long time(and if anyone in Scania wants my left overs, just message me and their yours...I've got like 20 of them left)...

Another thing of note...I did get 15% crit chance for my inner ability once before by just using honour points and rerolling a unique IA...so I can verify that it's possible to get a decent boost without investing NX...but in the end I had to use nearly 100k nx to finally get the 30% crit chance line. In addition...that 100k nx on circulators was not spent rare => legendary w/ 30% crit, I started with legendary and spent it all rerolling already at the legendary tier. I rolled +1 attack speed twice along the way, 30 attack 4-5 times and I didn't even take note of the buff duration lines I got so I can't speak to the chance of rolling them.

My crit comes from the following

Soul Shooter Expert = 30%
Inner Ability = 30%
Hyper Skill = 10%
Emblem BPot = 9%
Char Card = 3%
Phantom Link = 15%
Base = 5% I believe.

Why is it important? Well, beyond base boost to crit min/max dmg% you get 60% boost to max, 30% boost to min from Star Gazer. Then, for me I get 3% min, 3% max dmg from my shade card(lvl 100), 6% max crit dmg% from Hayato card(lvl 100), 15% min crit from my tyrant glove(it's one of the possible regular and bonus potential lines once you get to legendary tier)...and all of that combines to give me a min crit dmg% of 189% and a max crit dmg% of 213%. So, with 100% crit chance I get a 189%-213% boost to my regular damage at all times after casting Star Gazer. It's a massive boost and you're not really utilizing an Angelic Buster the way it was designed and (poorly) balanced against other classes if you don't specifically invest effort towards raising your crit chance and your min/max crit.

Of note -- You can get a decent boost to min/max from having a 3 thief card set effect, however it's almost impossible to do this while using the Kanna & DA 3% boss dmg cards, getting the 6% pdr from pirate set, etc...so I had to sacrifice it. Pdr is very hard to get for an AB so it's prolly best to invest towards pdr% than minimal min/max crit lines where possible. I could be wrong and I'm not including the math because I'm still not even certain I understand how to apply pdr% towards dmg with 100% accuracy in an effort to get down to the specific damage numbers with one vs the other...so yeah. It's also my understand, though I could be wrong, that the min/max crit dmg% is multiplicative so the boost once you're over 200%ish is decreased. Again, not certain of that.

[quote=wall]How much crit% does an angelic buster have at level 200 with only inherent crit? (no links/character cards/potentials/inner ability)[/quote]

35%. The only AB skill that gives % critical chance is soul shooter expert, 45% with hyper crit.

As with AB you want to get 100% critical rate on endgame, aiming for the 30% critical rate inner(or 2x% crit one) is probably your best bet to reach that amount, if you can reach 100% crit without inner ability then go for the -1 attack speed inner.

[quote=wall]I wasn't aware that the two skills didn't stack.
I get mine from everything you listed, but level 3 or SS character card, as well as 21% on my emblem (9% main 12% bpot), and a 15% ring. I cap with that setup, so I don't see a need to upgrade to another gollux or scarlet ring, however I have been considering it if I were to roll unique crit IA.[/quote]

Yeah, you can cap on AB without the crit inner, but I think it's a bit wasteful not to use the IA if possible. It would free up the emblem lines for PDR or %ATT, and get you 100% crit rate.
If you wanted 100% crit without dSE, you would need another 2 lines of 9% crit, for example. That would be 4 lines used up, vs. just 1 inner ability line.
Crit seems to be easier to get than attack speed for most people, and that's really the only useful one for AB besides a distant second of boss damage.

[quote=wall]@RisingRain: Wow, I really don't think the 30% crit inner is super mandatory then. I've got 15% base with my hyper skill, and I have 82% crit clean, 92% with dse. None of that comes from my inner as I've got +1 mob leg inner.[/quote]
Where do you get your crit from then? AB's can't use dSE because Star Gazer is better.
Using crit lines on the emblem is wasteful, besides maybe 9-12% on emblem bpot. And using crit rings are decent as a placeholder, but they should be swapped with Gollux rings.

ABs get more benefit from maxed crit rate as well, because their min/max crit damage is significantly higher than Shades', and they don't have a skill that gives 90% extra crit at <50% HP.

[quote=wall]How much crit% does an angelic buster have at level 200 with only inherent crit? (no links/character cards/potentials/inner ability)[/quote]
The optimal breakdown is:

3% MM Card
7% BT Link
15% Phantom Link
5% Base
10% Hyper
30% Inner Ability
30% Soul Shooter Mastery

So, 45% base.

Best for Angelic Buster is 30% critical chance. It's really difficult to get...but it's definitely worth it. The most crit chance you'll get out of most pieces of gear is 9%-12% lines. You free up so many lines of potential by being able to use those lines for %atk, boss%, pdr%(another difficult thing for AB's to get) or even stat% instead of wasting them on something you can get far easier for inner ability at the biggest cost of sacrificing 30atk or 1atk speed...which you can easily compensate for with a glove.

http://i.imgur.com/e2Nwk0Y.jpg That's easy enough to get when you feel the need...and now that we have the melody revamp the need for attack speed is less imperative than it used to be.