Critical strike

Critical Strike is a key combat mechanic in Soulstone Survivors that allows attacks to deal significantly increased damage. The likelihood of an attack landing as a critical strike is governed by the player's Critical Chance, while the magnitude of the increased damage is determined by the player's Critical Damage. This mechanic is central to many high-burst damage builds due to its ability to multiply offensive output.

There are three status effects that directly affect critical strike potency:

• Dazed: Increases the chance for the target to receive critical hits by 1% per stack.
• Disoriented: Increases the critical damage taken by the target by 1% per stack.
• Condemned: Modifies critical damage caused by direct hits. Consumes 10 stacks to increase the damage caused by 500%.

Core mechanics

Critical Chance

Critical Chance determines the probability of an attack becoming a critical strike. Base critical chance is 5%. Each hit or skill application independently rolls for a critical strike. Critical Tiers enable higher-tier critical strikes when critical chance exceeds 100%:

• 150% Crit Chance: Guaranteed Tier 1 crit (100%) and a 50% chance for a Tier 2 crit.
• 250% Crit Chance: Guaranteed Tier 1 crit, 100% chance for Tier 2, and a 50% chance for a Tier 3 crit. Each additional 100% guarantees the next tier, with the remainder acting as a chance for the subsequent tier.

Vicious Strikes grants 100% critical chance against full-health enemies, ensuring a critical first strike.

Critical Damage

Critical Damage determines extra damage dealt on critical strikes. Base crit damage is 200%.

Critical Hit Damage is calculated as:

${\color {White}{\text{Critical Hit Damage}}={\text{Base Damage}}*{\text{Critical Damage}}}$

Each critical tier multiplies the damage by the Critical Damage. Assuming a base damage of 1,000 and critically strikes 3 times with a critical damage modifier of 200%, the damage calculations would be:

${\color {White}{\text{Total Damage}}={\text{Base Damage}}*{\text{Crit Damage Modifier}}*(1+{\text{Crit Tier}})=1,000*2*(1+3)=8,000}$

Damaging status effects like Burn, Poison, Doom, and Bleed can critically strike at application. Their total damage is multiplied by current Critical Damage and distributed over their duration. Skills without direct damage (e.g., Void

Void

Active Skill

Conjures a void over a random enemy that pulls enemies towards its position, causing damage and applying Doom every 0.5 seconds.

Skill type: Shadow, Lasting, Area, Magical

Duration:

6s

Base Damage:

50

Doom | Total Damage:

190

Cooldown:

14.0s

, Piercing Shout

Piercing Shout

Active Skill

A powerful shout that causes damage and applies Shattered.

Skill type: Thrust, Area, Physical

Damage:

450

Shattered | Armor Reduction:

20

Cooldown:

7.0s

) can also critically strike, enhancing applied status effects.

Critical Healing

Healing skills can also critically strike, increasing the amount of health restored. For instance, a healing skill that typically restores 100 health can restore 150 health on a critical heal if the critical damage modifier is 50%. However, absorption shields, such as those from Arcane Shield

Arcane Shield

Active Skill

Creates an arcane shield that absorbs damage. When the shield expires, it causes the damage based on the amount absorbed to nearby enemies.

Skill type: Arcane, Empowering, Lasting, Magical

Duration:

15.0s

Shield Health:

30

Damage per Health:

30

Cooldown:

30.0s

, do not benefit from critical strikes.

Certain skills have unique interactions with critical strikes: Templar's Verdict

Templar's Verdict

Active Skill

Conjures a holy sword over a random enemy, causing damage. Gain Purity. Traits: Devastating.

Skill type: Holy, Swing, Area, Physical

Damage:

480

Purity | Stacks Applied:

2

Cooldown:

4.7s

and Sniper Shot

Sniper Shot

Active Skill

Fires a shot in the target direction, causing damage. Traits: Devastating and Precise.

Skill type: Projectile, Missile, Frontal, Physical

Damage:

950

Cooldown:

5.0s

: These skills multiply the total final damage on a critical hit and can have skill-specific critical damage upgrades.

See also

• Direct hit
• Multi cast