Talk:Critical Hit/@comment-70.73.154.105-20140206135625/@comment-98.220.185.198-20140301085411

In practice, yes. Assuming that you fully charge each shot.

Technically, no. The dread (and all other bows) actually have a much lower crit chance than advertised. In the case of the dread, it starts at 10%. But as you charge your shot that crit chance will rapidly climb until it reaches its max (50% for the dread before mods). So if you're using a max rank point strike, you can fire arrows without fully charging them and still get crits every time (assuming you are awesome at timing it). That said, it's not worth it as you'd lose base damage by doing this as base damage also increases from a far lower value during charge time.

TL,DR: use a rank 3 point strike on the dread