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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1736308" data-attributes="member: 1656">Right.  You're not immune to criticals; it's simply that there's a 100% chance they'll be negated.Heh!    As it happens, I agree with Customer Service 100% in this case.It's the opposite of what the Sage said at one point, though.As I read it - a Construct still gets his head chopped off, because he's immune to critical hits, and we know that crit-triggered effects (like Vorpal, or Flaming Burst) still take place.  The critical still happens... it's just that the Construct is immune to it, so he takes no extra damage.  However, since the critical occurred, the Flaming Burst or Vorpal or whatever triggers normally.This is different to the Fortification scenario.  The armor actually negates the critical.  You're not immune to the crit; rather. the crit does not take place.  Since the critical doesn't happen, nothing dependent on a critical triggers.  Including Vorpal.So I agree completely with CustServ in this case.(From memory, the Sage said something like "'Negated' doesn't actually mean 'negated'".)-Hyp.</blockquote>