# Elemental critical and the cap

**URL:** <https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/t/elemental-critical-and-the-cap/11388>\
**Category:** Gameplay\
**Created:** [November 1, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/t/elemental-critical-and-the-cap/11388 "2016-11-01T01:39:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rsaw](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rsaw](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/u/Rsaw)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/t/elemental-critical-and-the-cap/11388/1 "2016-11-01T01:39:10Z")

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The cap for elemental critical I know is 40%. However, the mage affix aethereal drain and focus both add elemental critical which easily goes over the 40% cap. Does anyone know if these are factored differently and they allow you to go over the normal cap of 40%? If not then that is a lot of wasted affixes that could be used for something else.

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**Author:** ![Griffin](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/user_avatar/forums.dungeon-quest.com/griffin/32/10705_2.png) [@Griffin](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/u/Griffin)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/t/elemental-critical-and-the-cap/11388/2 "2016-11-01T01:41:38Z")

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No these two give bonuses too the same stat however there are 2 different types of elemental critical affixes the all elemental critical like these offer which caps at 40% and the specific elemental criticals that you can get from epic affixes which have no cap 😄

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**Author:** ![Rsaw](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rsaw](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/u/Rsaw)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/t/elemental-critical-and-the-cap/11388/3 "2016-11-01T02:07:29Z")

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Ok, so once I have 40% elemental critical from a combo of 30% legend elemental critical and another 10% elemental critical from the mage talent (or the other ways to achieve 40% elemental critical), I could then add an epic affix like toxic to add another 15% to bring the total up to 55%? Sorry for the long sentence haha.

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**Author:** ![Griffin](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/user_avatar/forums.dungeon-quest.com/griffin/32/10705_2.png) [@Griffin](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/u/Griffin)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://forums.dungeon-quest.com/t/elemental-critical-and-the-cap/11388/4 "2016-11-01T02:10:26Z")

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Yup! 😄