Critical Hit

Critical hit Rating is a character stat determining your chance to inflict critical damage to monsters. It can be increased by weapon and crystal affixes, as well as some ancient items'. Critical damage can also be increased with affixes and starts at 200%. The critical damage heal stat allows you to heal by a percentage of critical damage done when you strike a critical hit. There is also a fire, cold , poison and lightning critical hit rating stat.

Especially in combination with critical damage heal, critical hit rating is a cornerstone of many strong SC builds.