Shattered Kingdoms

Crit cleave message should be fixed next update.

you left my adjective off BoG4U

Anyone should have known that it was you.

He's the one who should feel proud he survived. Mastered counterstrike is the reason I have never seen such messages.

Critical cleaves can not be counterstriked. He's lucky he landed a crit though. I did that once on a hammer barb, was funny..found out he was a barb after I did it.

Why wouldn't a critical cleave trigger counterstrike?

If it is the pk I remember Cannibal, the giant was wielding a cold iron weapon with reach and you commented how lucky you were because you hadn't checked. So either after the pk someone who knows told you it can't be counterstriked because it is a script like you say or the giant just failed. If it is the first case it sounds to me like a bug.

totally wrong info.

ROFL at the number of completely incorrect player responses to this bug report.

Just to clarify: You CAN counterstrike a cleave. Just like backstab, cleave does more damage regardless of a critical and when it is counterstriked, that damage is multiplied for a truly awesome counter. Whether it was going to be a critical cleave or not is irrelevant because the game doesn't know the difference at that point. But once countered, the attack is no longer considered a cleave, so the barbarian has no chance to perform a critical.

Short form: You can counter a critical cleave but you can't instant kill from it.