Talk:Melee 2.0/@comment-76.10.148.95-20150418133847/@comment-24557530-20150418162135

Channeling gives each attack a 50% (increaseable with mods) damage boost, but will also cause it to cost energy (decreaseable with mods).

Critical Hit gives attacks choosen at random based of your critical hit chance a SERPERATE damage multiplier, called Critical Damage Multiplier.

channeled attacks may crit just like normal attacks: damage = basedamage * 1.5 (if channeled) * CRIT_MULTI (if crit occured)

The only real interaction between the two is through True Punishment, where channeling increases the crit chance.