The Five Second Rule

[MongoJerry]

Also, I believe the chance to crit with spells is tied to intellect, not fixed at any percentage. Unfortunately the game does not display spell crit chance anywhere, only melee crit chance, so it's hard to tell.

Getting back to this, my understanding is that you about +1% chance to crit for every 30ish intelligence. So, if you have 300 intelligence, that gives you +10% to crit rate over whatever the base rate is plus your gear and talent choices. I also believe the 5% crit rate is a myth, as I believe Lem and I did some tests with rogue crit rates and it seemed like the base was only 1%. If the 5% number is real, maybe that's like the minimum crit rate. That is, maybe the game does some calculations that say, "If the calculated crit rate is less than 5%, then give the person a crit rate of 5%."