Fred K wrote:
Druegar wrote: Y'all need to put the crack pipe down.
Hey, we can stop buying tokens any time we want to... *twitch*
It’s more of an academic curiosity than anything. Theoretically, the most damage possible with a single slide to a single target (that isn’t an auto-kill like quivering palm) should be a dwarf fighter using the captain’s mug. Say, 50 dmg (just for easy math) between bonuses and the weapon times 5 is 250 damage (or times 4 for 200 dmg), it’s unclear if it should be times 5 based on the database write-up on multipliers or just times 4 since x2 is normal and the dwarven ability only increases it by one step. A monk or ranger critting twice with similar would only be x3 since the specifics on the token would over-ride the normal x2 resulting in a total of 300 dmg.
It’s definitely something TD should consider in future item designs that damage can get out of control fast if any significant ways to have stacking multipliers is introduced.
Fred
I don't think it works like that.
The tokendb entry for Captains mug says:
The weapon deals triple damage (instead of the normal double damage) when a critical hit is scored.
5th level Dwarf Fighter says:
"Any time Dwarf Fighter slides a natural "20" and the result is a critical hit, the attack does triple damage instead of double damage."
Each of these effects replaces the default effect of a critical hit, in other words they change what the rules for a critical hit say.
I believe:
Defautl crit = 2x
5th level dwarf crit on 20 = 3x
Captains mug crit = 3x
5th level dwarf wielding captains mug crit on 20 = 3x
You'd need to find something that "doubles damage" not something that replaces the critical effect to find an effect that could result in multiplication or scaling beyond 3x.
I think Ring of Wizardry, MeC, are the only things that double damage (rather than altering the definition of a critical hit) that in the game for general damage, and Thunder Stone vs. constructs and Sacred damage sources vs. undead.
So, a Dwarf Fighter using a Sacred weapon vs. Undead and scoring a critical hit does cause an interesting question: is it 6x the base damage, or some other amount.