How is CRIT fire trapper mean to be played?

So, I rolled a trapper in invasion. This is my first crit based trapper in this game.

Im using fire traps, cold snap traps and lighting traps.

I have now stats on fire trap:
32% change to crit
close to 600% multiplier. (Still need lots of better gear.)


While leveling, I was using: Fire trap - Change to ignite - Ele prolif - Conc effect - Fire pen


Now Im using: Fire trap - Ele prolif - Conc effect - Fire pen - Increased crit dmg.


Problem is, I can throw ten or more fire traps and none of them crit. I checked some guides but none of those talk about this problem.. Yes, dmg is kinda crazy WHEN it crits.

But when it doesnt, its very frustrating.

Guess I will just change fire pen to change to ignite and keep that crit multi gem there for extra dmg boost when crit happens.

Or am I doing something wrong? Enlighten me please, trap masters!

Are your helping your crit chance with Diamond Flask? It surely give a hand with chance.

The way fire trap works the crit happens only at the moment of detonation, which is still kinda low at 32%. Get you chance closer to 50%, add increased duration, and you'll notice a huge difference.

With that low of a crit chance, lightning trap would be better. But it's terrible on single target.

traps have only 5% base critical chance so I donot think they are suitable for +crit build.

I am also playing my multi trapper in invasion and I find the strength should be fire as dot, convert trap as decoys, lighting traps to stack shock, bear trap for boss kill. and in the long term pick EE to further boost dps

He is safe and less gear hungury, has very good control skill and decent dps. thats what I feel about the trappers.

You want to crit? Check this guy's build out http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/717834 I play crit trapper, it's fun.

Staples?

And your lovely crit gems. Diamond rings help too, a good dagger is sweet, I recommend if not a rare is fine too, sometimes even better, as for leveling you are looking for something of similar stats. I used NOT PERFECT, more you put into gear the better the deeps!

Yeah, well I just changed fire penetration for change to ignite and feels better. Still strong crits. Kills merciless Kole in one shot and some invasion bosses too.

Im using lighting trap to clear white mobs and shock stacks, cold snap traps for freeze.

Gotta try that diamond flask.

every trap thrown with multitrap (x3) gets rolled individually on crit. for solo thats still more than enough dps and youll get far more crit prolifs running