Talk:Red skull

Wrong meaning?
I think the meaning currently described in the article is not correct. A red skull above an monster's head does not indicate a critical hit. Instead, it means that the crature has taken a lethal hit and is about to die. The creature's armor and health are already at zero. If you fire at it you'll always get a "miss" message. But it's not necessary to hit it anyway, because it's just a matter of waiting a few seconds until it falls over and dies, regardless whether you inflict further damage to it or not.

Maybe I'm mistaken. Correct me if I'm wrong. --Tetris L 18:46, 29 June 2007 (EDT)
 * °Bump!° If nobody speaks up by Thursday, I'll rewrite the article. --Tetris L 05:55, 3 July 2007 (EDT)

The red skull indicates a death FROM a critical hit, it will linger in this state for about ten seconds I think,if you dont finish the mob it will just die afterwards like from a normal hit. Also it raises your xp multiplicator if you use the finishing move on the mob. --Ensis 09:24, 5 September 2007 (EDT)

Actually its double exprience not 1.5, it can be 1.5 if you hit the next multiplier bafter the kill you will get the xp before the multiplier went up and the bonus xp with the new multiplier applied.
 * (Imper1um 01:08, 6 September 2007 (EDT))
 * Actually, it is 1.5. When I've been granted XP, it has been like this
 * 100 XP for a Mob at 1x Multiplier w/o Crit.
 * 100 XP for a Mob at 1x Multipler /w Crit w/o Melee Finisher
 * 100 XP + 150 XP for a Mob at 1x Multipler /w crit /w Melee Finisher.
 * Come to think of it now, it actually should be 1 + 1.5 = 2.5