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Welcome to the ESO Critical Damage Guide. In this guide we are going to take a look at all the critical damage modifiers in the game. A lot of players confuse critical damage and critical chance (weapon and spell critical). Critical chance gives your abilities the possibility to crit. Critical damage is the modifier.
Critical Damage is a 50% boost to damage done at its base level when an ability crits. That means if a normal hit deals 1000 damage, a critical hit deals 1500 damage. However, you can increase the amount of critical damage via modifiers from sets, skills, champion points and passives. You can find a full list of all the possible modifiers below.
Update 32 Deadlands DLC introduced a critical damage hard cap of 125%. That means you won't be able to get above the 125%. This was done to reduce damage on very optimized raid groups. This hard cap won't affect many players except the top groups that managed to stack most of these buffs.
Below you can find two lists that showcase all the known critical damage modifiers. Of course you won't be able to get all of these at once, because some of the critical damage modifiers are class or race specific or require a very special set. Some buffs like Major Force won't have a 100% uptime, these are all things that you need to keep in mind.
| Name | % Gains |
| Base | 50% |
| Minor Force | 10% |
| Major Force | 20% |
| Minor Brittle | 10% |
| Major Brittle* | 20% |
| The Shadow Mundus Stone | 18% |
| Backstabber Perk | 15% |
| Fighting Finesse Perk | 10% |
| Elemental Catalyst Set | 15% |
| Harpooner's Wading Kilt Set | 10% |
| Sul-Xan's Torment Set | 12% |
| Dexterity Medium Armor Passive | 14% |
| Twin Blade and Blunt Dual Wield Passive | 16% |
| Heavy Weapons Two Handed Passive | 16% |
| Feline Ambush Khajiit Passive | 12% |
| Hemorrhage Nightblade Pass | 10% |
| Piercing Spear Templar Passive | 10% |
| Glacial Presence Warden Passive | 10% |
| Malacath's Band of Brutality Set** | -50% |
To reach the 125% critical damage hard cap you could stack the following buffs. Lets take a look at a magicka based raid group example.
| Name | % Gains |
| Base | 50% |
| Minor Force | 10% |
| Major Force | 20% |
| Minor Brittle | 10% |
| Backstabber Perk | 15% |
| Fighting Finesse Perk | 10% |
| Elemental Catalyst Set | 15% |
| Total | 130% |
Lets take a look at a few common questions about critical damage in ESO.
