I Don't Understand Crit Chance

[Dredj]

I am levelling another Lato atm, so using that as a reference, I have 100% crit chance mod and base crit of 2.5 = 102.5% crit chance, so should I not be getting yellow crits every time I fire with a 2.5% of red crits?

[ZoG-]

The crit is a literal 100 PERCENT increase, not a 100 PERCENT POINT increase, thus your modified crit chance is 2,5% + 100%*2,5% which is a whopping 5% overall crit chance.

[Kurokazin]

100% of 2.5% is 5%.

[7rance]

Critchance is multiplicative. So that 100% Mod turns the Lato's Critchance to 5%, it is a useless mod, dont use Critchance/damage mods on any weapon.

 

Maaaybe on a Snipetron and some melee weapons with high base crit but even there i would just stack Damage Mods and get rid of the Randomness of Critchance.

[Dredj]

Aaahhhh I see, makes so much sense now.. cheers.

[sambarpowder]

So basically, a waste of a mod slot.

[se05239]

Its better on weapons.. like Lex, that have an innate 15% chance to crit. 

[Rydralle]

Yep try to match these mods with weapons that innately has high crit chance, you'll see loads of yellow numbers. My paris crits 1 out of 3 times with 100 percent crit mod