Quote Originally Posted by ZaqueXIII View Post
Possibly dumb question and Im not entirely sure if any testing additionally has been done for it, didnt SE fix that issue back when NIN had the garaunteed(kassatsu?) crit ninjutsu. I remember them saying that even though the crit is garaunteed it can still crit on top of that. I remember it being true at the time but that also might have been back in 2.x so its possible that they have changed it. If it remains true and is also true for direct hit then WAR still gets all the benefits from buffs provided they recieve them
Some of the old auto-crit actions where updated to critical-direct hit. Perhaps they were referring to something along the lines of "it's an auto-crit that can possibly direct hit". But I'm not sure either way.

Warrior doesn't get much benefit for 2 reasons: We don't meld DH so, at least in my runs so far, I have a 0% DH rate outside of IR. If our baseline is 0% it probably can't be buffed (anything * 0 = 0). Secondly, DH doesn't give any additional bonus like crit does. It's a flat 25% that can't ever increase. So even with a boosted DH rating during IR it doesn't effect the damage output (unlike crit where it's a marginal increase in crit damage)