The glossary

10 of 304 words for “Crit”

1. Crit

   WoW

   A critical strike: a hit or heal for roughly double. Crit chance comes from agility, intellect, talents and gear.

   “I'm at 28% crit unbuffed.”

   “That Eviscerate crit for 2,400.”

   See also: Hit cap, Attack power

2. Balance

   WoW

   How you split survival against damage: more stamina and armor, or more crit and attack power. The line PvP players argue about. This site's gear planner has a knob for it.

   “Balance for PvP: enough stamina to survive an opener, the rest into crit.”

   See also: Stamina, Equivalence points, Twink

3. Breakpoint

   WoW

   A stat threshold where something changes — the hit cap, enough haste for an extra tick, enough crit for a talent to matter.

   “The breakpoint is 9% hit; past that it's worthless.”

   See also: Hit cap, Theorycraft

4. Resilience

   PvP

   A PvP stat from later expansions that reduces damage from players and crit chance against you. Not in vanilla; Forever may add its own version.

   “No resilience here — stamina is the PvP stat.”

   See also: Stamina

5. RNG

   Gaming slang

   Random number generator: luck. 'RNG' explains every drop that didn't and every crit that did.

   “Three weeks, no trinket, RNG hates me.”

   “Won the fight on RNG, three crits in a row.”

   See also: Proc, Loot table

6. Attack power

   WoW

   Also: AP

   The stat behind physical damage. Strength and agility convert into it differently per class; one point of AP is roughly 1/14 of a DPS point.

   “That's 60 attack power from strength alone.”

   “AP is worth more than crit for a rogue until you have a lot of both.”

   See also: Spell power, Crit

7. Clip it

   Gaming slang

   Save that moment from the stream.

   “Clip it, five combo Eviscerate crit.”

   See also: VOD, POV

8. Hit cap

   WoW

   The amount of +hit after which extra hit does nothing. 9% against raid bosses (16% for spells) in vanilla-style games; 5% against players.

   “Don't stack past the hit cap, swap that ring for crit.”

   “Casters need 16% to be capped on bosses.”

   See also: Crit, Equivalence points

9. Opener

   PvP

   The first move of a fight, especially from stealth: Cheap Shot, Ambush, Pounce.

   “Ambush opener crit for half his health.”

   See also: Stealth, Burst

10. Theorycraft

    WoW

    Working out the math of the game — stat weights, rotations, breakpoints — from data and testing instead of feel.

    “The theorycraft says agility beats crit for you until 30% crit.”

    “He theorycrafted the whole build in a spreadsheet.”

    See also: Equivalence points, Sim, Min-max