Talk:Iraklis/@comment-49.150.113.189-20151023231822/@comment-24634511-20151028182741

All dark criticals are huge multipliers like nearly 10x (tested) even better than Iraklis - but like you noticed much less often.

My theory is that its related to dark resistance - but might be generally magic defence - for example a spider gets a critical every time no matter what, but generally it's more like 1 in 6 or 1 in 10 - however dark criticals aren't random like Iraklis - they seem to be 'accumulated' like stagger - this means it's rare to get a critical on a hobgoblin because it's dead 95% of the time before it can be hit enough times. Works the same way for Stagnant Surge and Kunai.

I don't think rooted gloom is as good as Iraklis - to be honest I dropped it for Iraklis ..

I still need to do some more tests too, and make an effort to find some dark resistant enemies to kill. If you find out more the dark page would be good - I'm 99% sure all dark weapons work the same way - based on a lot of personal use.