How Are Spells Affected By Outside Effects?

The title is confusing so let me explain. I have a 44% chance to crit and deal double damage because of dexterity, how does this affect my spells as an assassin? Does each hit of the multihit spell have a crit chance or is the entire spell a crit? Also, how do spells work with life/mana steal? Does each hit of multihit give me health/mana? Are spells affected by skill points at all?

 

The 44% crit chance is a bit misleading - it's a 44% chance to add the equivalent of +100% spell/melee damage for that attack. Practically speaking, this averages out to +44% spell/melee damage. I'm pretty certain each hit of multihit is calculated separately, but not 100% certain on that actually.

Spells don't trigger mana steal/lifesteal, only melee attacks do this (or main attack/basic attack/whatever it's called right now - us oldies are just used to calling it melee).

Skill points affect spells no differently than melee, in the general sense.

 

(as a note, the slower your attack speed the greater chance per hit to proc life steal or mana steal. But slow attack speeds and fast attacks speeds both have about the same chance per second to proc life steal and mana steal

I think the higher your attack speeds the better per second chance you have (assuming you are meleeing all the time) but don’t quote me on that)

(more information on this can be found here, but to be honest, you prolly don't need to worry about it, this is just if you're interested)

 

The chances are made in such a way that for eacht attack speed, when hitting 1 enemy the entire time, you should gain 1 proc every 4 seconds.

 

Sorry, but what is proc?

 

When an effect triggers

(so in this case, when life steal/mana steal triggers)