Shocking Burst on a Crit? What if...

[Chairman7w]

Shocking Burst on a Crit? What if...

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The target is immune to Crits?

The Shocking Burst does an additional 1d10 damage on a successful Crit. But what if the target is immune to Crits? (Undead, in this case)

Does that extra 1d10 still apply?

Thanks in advance,

Ed

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Yes, it does. It happens whenever your attack would have been a critical hit, regardless of whether or not your target takes any extra damage from it.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Note that as written, this is a difference between "I'm immune to crits", and "I'm wearing Armor of Fortification".

A creature who is immune to criticals still suffers from crit-triggered effects; the critical occurs, they just don't take extra damage from it. But the effects triggered by the critical apply normally.

Armor of Fortification, on the other hand, has a percentage chance of negating the critical. If the crit is negated, it never happened, and thus the Burst (for example) was never triggered.

On the other hand, someone wearing Armor of Heavy Fortification, even though there's a 100% chance criticals on them will be negated, is not immune to criticals, and therefore they do not benefit from certain follow-on immunities - Armor of Heavy Fortification as written does not make you immune to the Stunning Fist feat, for example.

-Hyp.

 

[glass]

Does that extra 1d10 still apply?

Yes it does, which is why I always like to get some kind of burst effect on my weapon if I am playing a fighter type: it avoids the 'yes! a 20, no! a zombie' moments.


glass.

 

[Stalker0]

or you could just get flaming and shocking on your sword and do 2d6 extra damage every time you swing

 

[glass]

or you could just get flaming and shocking on your sword and do 2d6 extra damage every time you swing

You could, but that wouldn't solve the problem.


glass.

 

[Laman Stahros]

If you have flaming burst (or any burst), then you do extra damage on every hit anyways, + the burst on a crit .