doing less melee damage than intended?

[elstirthibaut]

hello, im in the second map (the route to the monastery) and i'm fighting the ghouls and undeads at the beginning of the area. I'm noticing that my warriors are doing very little damage to the skeletons that can resurect foes..is there something i'm missing? i see 7 or 8 damage and i should be doing double!
also do you have some tips for this encouter as the skeletons resurect the ennemies as soon as i kill them! thank you

[Wuffle]

possibly they have resistance to the damage you're dealing,
wich you would need a magic item, or magic to overcome

right-click the enemy creatures and ''examine'' them to spot potential resistances

[Spectre]

you want to use bludgeoning weapons for skeletons as they are vulnerable to that. Switch over to hammers and maces and see your damage skyrocket.

[elstirthibaut]

i don't understand i should deal 9 damage on mimimum on my attacks (based on the tooltip) and i do always 6 or 7 and it is against a ghoul!?
edit : i checked against some goblins in the goblins camp and my melee damage is normal it's just agains those ghouls and skeletons in the monastery roads that the problem occurs??

[elstirthibaut]

up! i tested in a combat in the underdark and i'm doing less than the toolip say for the minimum : i did a 4 damage with melee and the minimum should be 6...........................anybody have this??????

[Quelsec]

Originally posted by elstirthibaut:

up! i tested in a combat in the underdark and i'm doing less than the toolip say for the minimum : i did a 4 damage with melee and the minimum should be 6...........................anybody have this??????

As someone mentioned before unded have a lot of resistances so the damage is halved

[Gregorovitch]

Monsters can have resistance to different damage types, for melee these are slashing, piercing and crushing. In some cases they can also be vulnerable to a damage type, i.e. take extra damage from it (at least they usually can I'm not 100% sure about 5e)

Skellies, for example, are famously resistant to piercing damage (like you just poke through their bones), somewhat resistant to slashing damage but vulnerable to crushing damage, i.e. having their bones reduced to dust.

Therefore the wise adventurer will keep a mace, war hammer or something like that in their pack just in case they are ambushed by a bunch of skellies. The wise adventurer knows that skellies don't like maces and war hammers, they don't like them at all.

[elstirthibaut]

are you sure this is it?? because i tested some saves earlier and my damage is back to normal:
the value i had were way to low and ALWAYS too low (like 5 or 6 six times in a row). I then loaded a save an hour earlier, got to the same group of monsters and could have 15,12 damages consistently....
thank god it's only an hour before my last save...

edit : i rejust tested and did a 26 on a ghould just like that whereas before it was endlessly 5 or 6....

[elstirthibaut]

i don't understand why i'm doing less than the minimum number on my melee attack on a ghoul? how is it possible?? i just hit a 5 and the minimum should be 7?? slashing damage with a ghould should work no?
edit : i just hit a 2 with an arrow.....the minimum is 3..........i'm so sad

[elstirthibaut]

up :((((((((((((((((((((((((

[Cryptic]

Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing consistently. Melee seems like it might be bugged or something maybe with the calculations but even when I'm doing damage that the enemy doesn't really have any resistance towards, I'm getting consistently low damage

[Indure]

Look at the combat log and report or better yet post a screenshot of the damage calculation of the attacks in question.

[elstirthibaut]

ok i'll try taking a screenshot when it will happen again. i decided to continue my adventure even with the bug..might want to lower the difficulty :((((

[Draescan]

Originally posted by elstirthibaut:

ok i'll try taking a screenshot when it will happen again. i decided to continue my adventure even with the bug..might want to lower the difficulty :((((

It's not a bug, the undead skeleton knight looking mofos have an aura that reduces undead's damage taken in an AOE around them from anything except radiant damage.

You can see it if you mouse over them or examine them.