Question on critical/deadly strike

[Ruvanal]

the chance of monsters for doing a Critical Strike is always 5%, the term 'monsters' includes all kind of pets here (IIRC no hirelings). Only here the CS chance is applied to _all_ attacks, physical and elemental. A player character doesn't have a randomly or percentage chance for doubling his/her elemental damage.

AFAIK this has not changed in 1.10

There is a minor change in 1.10 in that the critical hit chance for the monsters is now listed in the monstats.txt file (making the modding of it very easy :) ). The values there in 1.10 ar either 0% or 5%.

For the mercs the a1, a2 and a3 mercs have a 0% crit chance and the act 5 mercs have a 5% chance. I know that in v1.09 the act 5 mercs were getting the critical hits (watched the sparks on many occasions) and the for them it also applied to their elemental damage (from some testing that I did). IIRC, I had seen the critical hit spark also on the a1 mercs in 1.09, I do not recall about the other two though.