I'll get right down to it.

1. Axes will very rarely give critical hits from dex compaired to a sword so go strength.

2. Critical hits are 2-3 times the damage you should have dealt. EXAMPLE, instead of landing a hit for say 10 damage you land a crit hit for 20-30.

Well thats it right now thanks in advance for right answers.

1. Myth - check this topic for updated info on this: http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=48734301&f=272

2. Fact... ish because since you can crit from your low end of damage sometimes your crits will appear similar or even slightly lower than regular hits, but you can visually see crits now so it's much easier to tell (ex: you can actually tell instead of guessing)

Thank you.

Sounds like 2 is true but hard to tell just how much its multiplied by.