Crit Calculator for ESO
Calculate your critical damage, critical chance, and see exactly how much DPS each stat is worth. Toggle your buffs, gear, and passives to see their contribution in real time.
Critical Damage
Major Force
Minor Force
Minor Brittle
Major Brittle
Fated Fortune
Piercing Spear
Blessing at the Peak
Hemorrhage
Advanced Species
Medium Armor
Axe (6% per axe)
Elemental Catalyst
True-Sworn Fury
Back-Alley Gourmand
Sul-Xan's Torment
Lucent Echoes
Harpooner's Wading Kilt
Order's Wrath
Malacath's Band of Brutality
Mora Scribe's Thesis
Shadow (Mundus)
Backstabber
Khajiit Racial
Critical Chance
Major Savagery/Prophecy
Minor Savagery/Prophecy
Death Knell
Pressure Points
Thief (Mundus)
Light Armor
Precise
Berserking Warrior
Tzogvin's Warband
Mother's Sorrow
Leviathan
Mora's Whispers
Medusa
Slimecraw (2-piece)
How Critical Damage Works in ESO
Every character in ESO starts with a base 50% Critical Damage bonus. When you land a critical hit, your damage is multiplied by 1 + your total Critical Damage. So at 50% base, a crit does 1.5x damage. Every source of Critical Damage - buffs like Major Force, gear sets, class passives, champion points - stacks additively on top of that 50% base. Since Update 32 (Deadlands), Critical Damage is hard capped at 125%. Anything beyond that is wasted.
How Critical Chance Works in ESO
Critical Chance in ESO comes from a stat called Critical Rating. Divide your rating by 21,918 to get your crit chance percentage. Every character starts with a base 10% Critical Chance regardless of gear or stats. Sources like the Thief Mundus, weapon traits like Precise, armor passives, and gear sets all add Critical Rating (or flat crit chance in some cases) on top of that base. You can check your current Critical Chance in the character sheet under Advanced Stats. There is no hard cap on Critical Chance, but since it's a percentage, it naturally caps at 100%.
FAQ
Critical damage in ESO starts at a base of 50%, meaning critical hits deal 150% of normal damage. You can increase this through buffs like Major and Minor Force, gear sets, class passives, champion points, and racial bonuses. There is a hard cap of 125% critical damage, introduced in Update 32, meaning critical hits can deal at most 225% of normal damage.
All characters start with a base 10% critical chance. On top of that, crit rating from gear, sets, and buffs is converted to a percentage by dividing by 21,918. For example, 1,096 crit rating gives roughly 5% crit chance. Buffs like Major Prophecy/Savagery add a flat 12% directly. There is no hard cap on critical chance - you can reach 100%.
There is no single target number for crit chance in ESO. The value of crit chance depends on your current crit damage, group buffs, and the rest of your stats. Crit chance has diminishing returns - the more you have, the less each additional point is worth. However, higher crit damage counteracts this by making each critical hit more valuable. Use this calculator to see how much total DPS each point of crit chance is actually worth for your specific build.
Neither is universally better - it depends on your current stats and group setup. Adding crit damage is worth more when you already have high crit chance, and adding crit chance is worth more when you already have high crit damage. In organized trial groups, crit damage is often pushed to the 125% cap by group buffs like Warhorn and Elemental Catalyst, making additional crit chance more valuable. The DPS impact calculators on this page let you compare exactly how much total damage each stat adds for your specific setup.
Big thanks to SparkRip for creating a spreadsheet calculator which this tool is based off of - you can find it here.
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