Problem with archer crits?

From what I remember, the numbers shown for archers indicate the damage of the <next> hit, not the current one (not entirely sure how it works, but essentially the damage you're seeing is the damage you'll be doing on the NEXT hit...so say you went to hit a new, unfinished monster, even if the numbers show under 850, it will die).

Is that true?

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