Question: If I am using the Remnant of Pain shard and score a thorns-based critical hit (say, Bombardment does it), does the Area Damage proc also score a critical hit? Or is area damage unchanged from standard, non-seasonal play?
Thanks for help here.
Well, I might be wrong, but I believe thorns damage never crit.
Normally that’s correct. However, the OP specifically mentions the Remnant of Pain soul shard.
One of the variants of that shard has this property…
Your Critical Hit Chance is reduced by 15%.
Attacks against incapacitated enemies are automatically critical hits.
So, if the Crusader makes use of Shield Glare
Light erupts from your shield, Blinding all enemies up to 30 yards in front of you for 4 seconds.
…the blind counts as an incapacitation, and therefore the Thorns attacks are actually guaranteed to crit. I can’t answer whether the procs from Area Damage will also be though.
As far as I understand, AD does a flat percentage amount of damage to nearby targets based on the damage done on the primary target. Meaning there’s no separate crit calculation on them. So if the primary target takes a critical hit and AD procs, the nearby targets take that critical hit amount of damage multiplied by AD damage percentage.
This is not exactly true, since some stuff buffs the damage of a skill but not its area damage (ex: shield of fury stacks buff heaven’s fury damage but not area damage)
In this case, yes area damage does work properly despite the weird interaction between baguette shard and thorns damage.
What do you mean "does work properly’? Does it do the damage of the critical hit or does it not?
By “it works properly”, I mean it do be doing the deeps
If you crit with your bomb thorns rune and do 100Tr damage, and if AD procs with 150% area damage, you’ll have a 150Tr proc.