Ability Critical Strike
Type:	Two-Handed (Pommel Strike tree)
Effect type:	Activated
Range:	Personal
Activation:	40
Cooldown:	60s
Requires:	34 strength Master Combat Training
Description:	The character makes a single massive swing at the target, gaining a bonus to attack. If the strike connects, it is an automatic critical hit, possibly killing the opponent outright if its health is low enough.

Critical Strike is a warrior's Two-Handed talent from the Pommel Strike tree in Dragon Age: Origins.

Information Edit

• The character makes a single massive swing at the target, with +5 attack. If the strike connects, it is an automatic critical hit, possibly killing non-boss opponents outright if its health is equal to or below 20%.
• Conjuration time: 1s.
• 80 additional threat is supposed to be drawn from the target. As of patch 1.02, only damage-based threat is drawn.

Notes Edit

• Activation base is in stamina and values vary with fatigue%.
• Many talents and spells are more powerful than the description suggests (Punisher, Sunder Arms/Armor, Arrow of Slaying). This one, however, is quite the opposite. It is truly just a single swing done with a bonus to attack that criticals if it hits, causing a death-blow to any non-boss (white or yellow) target if its health is below 20%. If one takes into consideration that any "white" creature which is below 20% health should die from a two-handed warrior's swing anyway (that's the point of wielding a two handed weapon—slow swings, big numbers), this fourth-tier ability turns out to be worse than the first-tier Mighty Blow.
• Very useful when combined with later tier talents based on crits, such as Stunning Blows and Destroyer.

See also Edit

• Ability mechanics