Dex increased crit chance?

Now if I pool 15 points into dex on barb or pally does it help the crit chance at all ?

im only doing this in effort to maintain a high crit rate at 50-55 due to the high ee and crit items i have

without pooling anything into dex i was critting like 1 in 6 hits at 55

wondering if it would change the outcome at all

im no pro - an most certainly not on melee chars but ..






the weap ratios --> http://ladderslasher.d2jsp.org/index.php?g=3

seems to me that its mainly about the weapon, if its worth or not.

but hopefully there will be someone with actually melee experience

Thanks !
Yeah I was just scratching my head about this lol
It does seem that I crit hit more with dex points added than I did on previous climbs I use a sword Idk tho lol

dex doesnt help in this case.
just put all points into the favorited stat of the ratio.
crit chance is depending on the weapon type you use.. so axes crit the most, then swords/staves and then dagger/clubs
this is to balance the ratios:
if you use axes.. you only recieve 50% of the stats as bonus.. if you use dagger, you recieve 90% of all dex..
at the beginning when ratios were introduced the stat inbalance wasnt noticed first.. so you could deal A LOT more dmg with dagger than similar axes..
so the crit chances were modified in favour of axes. (just count your crits using axes and using dagger.. you crit way more with axes)

else you can only improve your crit chance with the mod "+x critical strike"


this is as i understood it.. i dont have the numbers of njaguar.. if i had these i could give you better info

Good enough for me lol
I was toying with the stats here n there and almost seemed like I crit'd more with adding 20 stats to dex as barb than I did on previous climbs altho I was using a sick sword with hi +CS
maybe I just kept having luck on my side lol

Anyway very helpful thanks !

some also swear that you get more crits if you try to keep the ratio as good as possible..
it is long ago.. but i think i tested it with rogue using axes.. and did pretty much the same dmg when i did 230dex 30str or 130dex 130str..

Before changes dex did change your crit a lot. Once ratios was added that changed. You can see a small amount of difference over the full climb but it's just luck and monster types you hit. The only way to change it is with adding crit either with gear or glyphs.

I did a small test again.

1-4 200 actions 32 crits 50/50 75str/75dex total damage 14706
1-4 200 actions 20 crits 55str/95dex 14026

That was probably more a product of lucky crits and monster types and a small test pool.

Thanks for the sample size !
Appreciate the words of wisdom!

Now level your pally and lets get monk !