Damage vs Critical

[TheOOB]

It comes down to the particulars of how your bonus damage reacts to crits. If you have a flaming frost shock weapon, that's 3d6 that doesn't get increased by your multiplier, so the high multiplier loses its equal footing. On the other hand, if you have a flaming burst icy burst shocking burst weapon, you get bigger bonus dice on a high multiplier (the original 3d6 plus an extra 9d10 in the case of the scythe's x4), so the higher multiplier comes ahead.

It can get complicated if you have a lot of different kinds of bonus dice type abilities on your attacks....

Acually, once again with flaming/icy burst weapons an increase to multiplyer is equally as valuable as an increase to threat range. With a x3 weapon flaming burst deals twice as much extra damage with a crit, but only crits half as much as a 19-20 weapon. It uses the same math I used above.