Currently Necromancer Pets can not land a critical strike in melee. I specced into Wild Minion 8 and let my pet melee test dummies for 10+ minutes without a single crit.
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23 Sep 2018 Woodspryte created this issue
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2 Nov 2018 zeph changed the status of this issue from in_progress to resolved
It can crit on the cold-proc added. With that being said, the proc does 2x as much damage as a melee-swing to the lvl 50 target dummy (96(-33) vs 203(-71))
@jelzinga_EU The proc crits due to it being treated as a spell cast by the Necromancer instead of an actual Weapon Proc (this is how offensive/defensive procs worked on live in regards to Necromancer pets). You can test this with speccing high into Wild Power and logging the amount of proc crits that you see.