Quote Originally Posted by Sapphidia View Post
Do we have any idea on percentage chance to crit?
The standard for crittable attacks seems to be 5%. Some monsters appear to have higher crit rates (Titan comes to mind) but that could also be my imagination. A few monsters (Shiva, Kaliya add) have crit buffs. Some bosses (All of first coil, maybe a couple others) don't crit at all.

I did hear that Crits are rolled for -first- before block/parry, so if a mob has 5% chance to crit even if you have 100% chance to parry (eg, Raw Intuition) you'll only parry 95% of the mob's attacks as the 5% crits will "pierce" your parry/block chance
This is correct

So outside of auto attacks, what else can crit? Is it purely physical damage auto attacks? Can the magical auto attacks from A4's boss crit despite being unblockable?
Auto attacks, auto magic attacks ("blizzard" from a sprite), and special attacks from trash monsters can typically crit. I think some dungeon bosses might be able to crit specials as well. Raid monsters usually only crit auto attacks. A4S's steam bit crits me for sure and is unblockable - I don't remember whether or not the quarantine adds crit.

As for whether or not Awareness is good, well... no. It's a shame that a gladiator trait is wasted on it. Against the Kaliya add with 100% crit rate it's great. Against Shiva in bow mode it's also pretty okay. Everywhere else it's pretty much a coinflip - maybe it saved you from a crit, maybe it didn't. Maybe use it if your healers want to zone out for a minute and let you get really low, or if you're entering a situation where 50% more damage on an auto will ruin the run.