Which is more powerful:  High DR or LOW CR

I'm designing some new weapons :)

jh

Depends.

Against NPCs, DR is what you are looking for. Unless you have action cards like "I done toying with you"  or "Final Strike".

Against PCs, if you want to kill them right away, then you need DR. On the other hand, if you want to cripple them but not kill them, you need low CR.

Cheers,

Yepes

Unless you are playing with house rules regarding crits, High DR is much more valuable than Low CR (at least to players).  Crits are 90% worthless and the other 10% of the time borderline worthless.  The only exception is when you hit Henchmen with them.  If you have house rules about critting on NPCs though, that could change.

Ruleswise I'd say that a high DR is probably better, but a low CR can be powerful in combination with the vicious trait and/or some action cards. My players like criticals, as they add more "fluff" to the battle instead of only hacking away at a wound pool.

Kartigan said:

+1

What makes me think that when I have  a second I will check the beta book of EotE to see if they have imporved this too in SW EotE and is ti possible to apply here

Cheers

ah! you may also want low CR if you have a poisonous weapon!

Hi,

Would second the above posts.

I guess its also worth noting it depends how the crit deck is organised. If its core box only then many crits are fairly ineffective, if OoW then more effective, if for some reason a(mad?) GM has tailored the crit deck to contain only the permanent injury crits and a few of the other more brutal crits then low CR gets progressively tastier…

In our group if you score a crit against an enemy and you do enough wounds to past its soak then you deal a number of additional wounds equal to the crit severity. I know that this is a house rule, but it really makes crits a lot more fun and interesting.

Lord Rogal Dorn said:

Also against PCs?  or does it only work in the direction PC vs NPC?

Cheers,

Yepes

Yepesnopes said:

That rule is only PC v NPC. When a PC recives a crit it is handeled normaly. Sorry I didn't make that distinction more clear. =P

You can only activate the crit rating of a weapon once though, right? Am I the only one doing that?

I often allow crits to do their severity in wounds if they aren't interesting enough.

Summarising…

Importance of Crit wounds depends on the contents of the Crit Wounds deck, for the GM can add or exclude any cards from any expansions.

Low CR must be combined with Vicious quality (or Swordmaster's artifact sword) to allow a better chance of dealing a crit wound with significant effect.

Some game effects work with crits, like poisoned weapons, severe wounds from Omens of War, or sertain action cards (for ex, a Necromancy Rank 2 spell, I think is name is Drain Life, don't remember exactly).

Otherwise, crit wounds do little to NPCs unless they are Henchmen or Swarms. They are more important to PCs, eventually leading to character death unless healed.

So, Low CR is rather situational, and usually DR is more important, because you will need 1-3 eagles to trigger weapon CR, and best weapon actions already have a +1 crit effect on eagles. You won't be able to trigger both unless you roll a lot of eagles.

Sorry if it sounds like Captain Obvious replica to you.

On the page 8 of errata, it is written that you can trigger weapon's CR once with eagles (boons) and once with Sigmar's Comet. This two crits will stack with each other and with other sources of crit effects. On the same page there is an example featuring Kurgi, the Troll Slayer, hacking a fearsome Wargor with a dwarven Greataxe.

DR is more consistent that CR.  

However, criticals are NOT worthless. First of all, criticals, like stress/fatigue, inflict +1 wound on faceless NPCs.  Secondly, on "boss" NPCs, criticals can be just as important as wounds. 

Then, there are also the aformentioned posioned and vicious weapons, as well a skaven warpstone weapons, which benefit from criticals.

There are also some talents/abilities which trigger or benefit when a critical is inflicted/caused.

A lower CR means a greater likelihood to cause a critical AND trigger a boon line effect.

Again, a DR is more consistent and, generally, more effective. However, do not discount the benefits that criticals (and a lower CR) can offer.