Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
This was the kind of thinking that made them effectively remove Crit/DH from affecting WAR. It's an incredibly dumb design direction. Who cares if you didn't crit on your 22nd Fell Cleave? Just play your best and you'll average at what you should.
Actually it was the opposite of dumb design, what it replaced was dumb design. The initial StB War was very random and Spiky due to so few attacks having such a major influence on average damage. The difference between direct crit Fell Cleave and a normal Fell Cleave during Berserk was 562 potency which was more than Fell Cleave's base potency of 500. When you have only 5 or 6 of those attacks every 2 minutes you only have a total of 25 to 30 of those attacks in a 10 minute fight which is far to few for the law of large numbers to ensure that each run was having the WAR deal roughly the same average damage.