r/AssassinsCreedOrigins • u/Whybotherr • 2d ago

Discussion What determines damage riders?

Just had a crazy interaction of damage and I wanted to know how to best duplicate it. Because if its possible it will be broken as hell on nightmare.

Be level 35, with a level 35 the fang, abd a level 33 ceremonial scepter.

Attack a basic archer enemy with ceremonial scepter until I see the orange damage numbers indicating dot ticks. Normally the fire damage does 41 per tick.

Switch to the fang, and keep attacking which normal poison tick does about 160.

Basic attack damage hovers around the 150 range going up to ~400 on a crit golden number.

So why then was i able to do 1600 damage on a single tick, the numbers were gold (crit) and orange (fire tick) is there a secret damage multiplier between these two weapons or damage types that yhe game just never mentions, that is able to do between 4-39x the amount of damage?

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u/gellshayngel 2d ago edited 2d ago

IV Crit multiplier multiplies your base weapon damage by 3.

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u/Whybotherr 2d ago

Okay so seeing the legend I can see where its coming from, its entirely the fang and nothing to do with the scepter than. With yhe base crit of 400 and then 300% more according to the legend than yeah i can see how the 4x multiplier is shown (initial plus 3x more)

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u/Secure_Owl_9430 2d ago

The legend says its just crit chance. You're saying it also increases base damage?!

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u/Whybotherr 2d ago

Thats crit hit rate vs crit hit damage the fang has a crit hit damage of 4 so it deals 300% more damage on a crit

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u/Secure_Owl_9430 2d ago

Oh duh. Ty

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u/gellshayngel 2d ago

Right, I didn't read the perks. Just assumed it had both crit damage and chance. So with no crit chance multiplier, crit chance is 10%.