** UPDATE**
It appears the relic affix “X% Critical Strike Chance for skills used by Shadows” is not being added to the base critical strike chance of shadow rend shadows when they do their weapon attack.
I am using the Primordial Unique Truesight Glass which gives you a chance to trigger Deadly Strikes (300% addtional crit multi) for every 1% base critical strike chance over 100% up to 140% chance.
My build currently has 22% base critical strike chance ( 8% from skill + 9% from relic + 5% base from character creation) and 568% increased critical strike chance from gear. Using the critical strike formula that comes to (1 + 5.68) * 22% or 147% base critical chance in total. You can view my current gear here:
After testing for several minutes on a training dummy not once did my shadow rend get an Orange critical strike number which signifies a deadly strike has occurred. My shurikens on the other hand have procced several deadly strikes. I’ll try to attach a video later showcasing a small 1 minute test I did. Youtube is taking forever to upload for some reason today.
After my own testing it seems the interaction between the Doppelganger’s mimicry’s (=relic) shadow crit chance and shadow rend that seems to be bugged. As in Shadow Rend doesn’t benefit from the extra shadow crit chance
It seems like you nailed the problem. Shadow damage seems to work but the base critical strike chance is not being added from the relic. I tested this by reducing critical strike chance on my gear to the point where i should still be slightly over 100% base critical strike chance. Instead of critical striking 100% of the time I procced a critical strike 75% of the time which would line up with the loss of 9% base critical strike chance.
This was harder to uncover at first while doing echoes because of all the critical vulnerability stacks Rogue can produce, but after testing several single strikes over a 3 minute period the problem was made clear. Will update my main post to reflect the bug is with the relic and not deadly strikes itself.
