Critical Hit



A Critical Hit is a repeatable event during the battle causing target to take more damage than usual. Critical hits are considered to be an essential part of the game.

What are Critical Hits
Critical Hits are randomly occurring modifiers of either taken or healed direct damage. Critical hits deal or heal double more direct damage upon having them occur randomly.

Hero's Critical Hit chance is determined by hero's weapon.

Bleed and Blight inflicted by critical hits last 50% longer rounded up (these typically last 3 rounds, so it would be extended to 5). Status effects applied during a critical hit have a 20% higher chance of applying.

Critical Hits on Heroes
Upon receiving a Critical Hit a hero will receive 10 stress and every party member will have a 50% chance to receive 5 stress. Increased damage taken cannot cross 150% of attack's maximum damage of non-critical hit situation.

Critical Healing on Heroes
Hero upon receiving critical healing will have reduced stress by 4 and heal double more direct damage, than usual. If a hero receives critical healing by Restoration, that hero will heal as much stress as much health he healed.

Critical Hits on Enemies
A hero who lands a critical hit heals his stress by 3 and in that case every party member has a 25% chance to do the same (doesn't work if hero lands a critical hit upon a corpse). If hero lands more than 1 critical hit by AOE skill, stress healing would be the same. Increased damage taken cannot cross 150% of attack's maximum damage of non-critical hit situation. A hero who strikes a critical hit upon enemy receives a 2 round buff depending on his class.

Enemies who die of a critical hit don't drop corpses.

Critical Healing on Enemies
Enemy, who receives critical healing restores double more health directly than usual.

Critical hit bonuses
As of the day The Color of Madness DLC was released upon dealing critical hits to enemies, heroes now receive 2 rounds buffs on themself (though how buff duration works in Darkest Dungeon, they in effect only last 1 of that hero's turns). Some of them lasts 3 rounds (or 2 turns).

Bonuses
*Lasts 3 rounds.