Bolt Phantom Crit Ranks: Worthless or awesome?

[drumpel]

Worthless or awesome?

Critical weighting is applied to bolt attacks using the formula: trunc((INT + WIS) / 6).[1] The following table shows the aforementioned relationship.

    Intuition + Wisdom Bonus 	0 	6 	12 	18 	24 	30 	36 	42 	48 	54 	60 	66 	72 	78 	84 	90 	96
          Critical Weighting 	0 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10 	11 	12 	13 	14 	15 	16

Without enchancives, my wizard has 4 ranks of crit on his bolts. I'd get the occasional bump up on some hits to push the crits to a outright kill, but usually they weren't that common.

   
Intuition (INT):    79 (14)    ...   79 (14)
Wisdom (WIS):    74 (12)    ...   74 (12)

Here he has (14+12)/6 = 4 crit ranks added to his bolts.

After a little silver spending (maybe around 5mil) I've got his INT and WIS up to these numbers:

Intuition (INT):    79 (14)    ...  119 (34)
Wisdom (WIS):    74 (12)    ...   90 (20)

Putting his bolt crit ranks to (34+20)/6 = 9

I'm seeing a lot more death crits using 904 and 903 (and one that I snuck in there from major acid). Here are a few from my lastest hunt.

You hurl a hissing stream of acid at a mezic!
  AS: +300 vs DS: +167 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +10 = +181
   ... and hit for 62 points of damage!
   Large swig of acid enters mouth.  Swelling cuts off essential breathing!
The mezic cries out one last time and lies still.
A mezic becomes solid again.
The brilliant luminescence fades from around a mezic.
The glowing specks of energy surrounding a mezic suddenly shoot off in all directions, then quickly fade away.
The mezic no longer bristles with energy.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

You hurl a hissing stream of acid at a vesperti!
  AS: +305 vs DS: +227 with AvD: +37 + d100 roll: +95 = +210
   ... and hit for 78 points of damage!
   Acid burns a hole in the neck causing a fatal fluid leak!
The vesperti's wings splay out as she goes still.
The light blue glow leaves a vesperti.
The silvery luminescence fades from around a vesperti.
The deep blue glow leaves a vesperti.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

You hurl a stream of water at a vesperti!
  AS: +305 vs DS: +150 with AvD: +29 + d100 roll: +14 = +198
   ... and hit for 54 points of damage!
   Hard blow to neck loosens head on shoulders.
   Quite fatal!
The vesperti's wings splay out as he goes still.
The light blue glow leaves a vesperti.
The deep blue glow leaves a vesperti.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

You hurl a bubbling ball of acid at a mezic!
  AS: +300 vs DS: +176 with AvD: +55 + d100 roll: +12 = +191
   ... and hit for 66 points of damage!
   Acid splash isn't stopped by skull, fries brain!
The mezic cries out one last time and lies still.
The silvery luminescence fades from around a mezic.
A mezic becomes solid again.
The brilliant luminescence fades from around a mezic.
The glowing specks of energy surrounding a mezic suddenly shoot off in all directions, then quickly fade away.
The mezic no longer bristles with energy.
The bubbling ball of acid strikes a mezic, blossoming into a much larger sphere of acid upon impact.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

I'm getting more death crits now that I've added an extra 5 phantom crit ranks to my bolts. Anyone else boost their bolt crits or do you think I'm just being wasteful in terms of time and coins?

[drumpel]

Just one more in my last quick run out there to get enough exp to level:

You hurl a stream of water at a mezic!
  AS: +300 vs DS: +157 with AvD: +30 + d100 roll: +1 = +174
   ... and hit for 56 points of damage!
   Hard blow to temple scrambles brain!
The mezic cries out one last time and lies still.
The silvery luminescence fades from around a mezic.
The mezic no longer bristles with energy.
The glowing specks of energy surrounding a mezic suddenly shoot off in all directions, then quickly fade away.
The brilliant luminescence fades from around a mezic.
A mezic becomes solid again.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.