Mage's Preparation passive appears to guarantee crits on "next spell"

Bug Reports
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UPDATE I unwittingly had Gambler’s Fallacy equipped, so you can ignore this report as it’s not a bug.

The Preparation Mage passive appears to be setting the global critical chance to 122% while it’s active, according to the character info panel at least. When Preparation is inactive, the critical chance becomes 3%. Note that these numbers refer to the actual critical chance not Increased Critical Chance.

I don’t know how accurate the character info panel is, but Elemental Nova always seemed to crit while Preparation was active (I have Fire Nova with a cooldown).

On top of that, the crit effect seems to remain even when all the allocated points are removed from Preparation, just as the Preparation icon remains above the skill bar (as reported in a separate issue). I even tried to leave the game and re-enter it, and while the passive icon disappeared, the crit effect remained.

This is with version 0.8.1e.

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Are you sure you don’t have the Gambler’s Fallacy unique as that has a very similar cooldown (4s rather than 3s).

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Good catch! I do indeed have it. Had no idea. Then my apologies, this is not a bug. Thanks for the quick response.

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