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LS damage bonuses have a flat cost based on the lowest chance even at Hypercrit's easily-achieved 100% rate, and are worth more than putting the same resources into raw damage. We're beginning a comprehensive revamping of these mechanics and their interactions to find a good balance between fun, and other options still being worthwhile by comparison.

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Damage boosts to Lucky Strikes will now be additive.

Damage boosts are being clawed back from +50% damage to +33.3%

Anything that modifies Lucky Strike rate will now proportionately affect Lucky Strike damage. If you have x1.5 LS rate then you'll do /1.5 LS damage. These'll stack additively -- throwing on another x1.5 rate will make it x2 rate and /2 damage.

Items with "MC: x1.5 LS rate" will now be,
-[summary] +3.33% Lucky Strike rate
-[detailed] +33.3% Lucky Strike damage plus a free effect of +3.33% Lucky Strike rate; assuming nothing else the MC damage boost and damage modifier from adjusting the rate will cancel out and you'll just get +3.33% Lucky Strike rate

[uncertain] Because of this I'm gonna keep rate modifiers to +3.33% increments.

Hypercritical now just boosts LS damage and applies a single "+3.33% rate" modifier.