Yes, yellow numbers mean you got a critical hit. Many (most?) skills are capable of producing critical hits occasionally. You can see your chance of critical hits and the additional damage by clicking the "details" button inside your inventory. Items can increase both of these numbers, though many players opt to go for more "relaible" sources of extra damage...
It is important to point out that Disintegrate itself cannot crit, but Chaos Nexus rune can. This is important because a lot of abilities and some items have stuff that works "on crit" so the main beam of Disintegrate won't ever proc those.
It is important to point out that Disintegrate itself cannot crit, but Chaos Nexus rune can. This is important because a lot of abilities and some items have stuff that works "on crit" so the main beam of Disintegrate won't ever proc those.
I used to think this was true until I did some experimenting myself and found out it's completely false. I've tested Ray of Frost, Disintegrate (without the Chaos Nexus rune), and Blizzard with crit damage and the Critical Mass passive. You see bigger numbers with more crit damage and you can proc Critical Mass with all three abilities; both of these outcomes points towards critical hits happening. The problem is that there is a display bug with these skills which causes their crits to show up as white text.
The only skill so far that I'm 100% sure cannot produce crits is Venom Hydra.
It is important to point out that Disintegrate itself cannot crit, but Chaos Nexus rune can. This is important because a lot of abilities and some items have stuff that works "on crit" so the main beam of Disintegrate won't ever proc those.
I used to think this was true until I did some experimenting myself and found out it's completely false. I've tested Ray of Frost, Disintegrate (without the Chaos Nexus rune), and Blizzard with crit damage and the Critical Mass passive. You see bigger numbers with more crit damage and you can proc Critical Mass with all three abilities; both of these outcomes points towards critical hits happening. The problem is that there is a display bug with these skills which causes their crits to show up as white text.
The only skill so far that I'm 100% sure cannot produce crits is Venom Hydra.
I am pretty sure this is true..I feel I have had disintegrate proc crits while using the volatility rune. I mean crits when the explosions happen.
Chaos Nexus and Volatility can crit and their crits produce the larger yellow crit font. I'm saying the beam itself can crit, it just doesn't look like it does because of a display bug.
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I am curious as to what the Yellow numbers mean when damaging with Disentegrate? Is that a Crit Hit?
I used to think this was true until I did some experimenting myself and found out it's completely false. I've tested Ray of Frost, Disintegrate (without the Chaos Nexus rune), and Blizzard with crit damage and the Critical Mass passive. You see bigger numbers with more crit damage and you can proc Critical Mass with all three abilities; both of these outcomes points towards critical hits happening. The problem is that there is a display bug with these skills which causes their crits to show up as white text.
The only skill so far that I'm 100% sure cannot produce crits is Venom Hydra.
I am pretty sure this is true..I feel I have had disintegrate proc crits while using the volatility rune. I mean crits when the explosions happen.