Two hand sword doing virtually no damage at lv 20

[Torkhi]

I just switched to the giants sword and upgraded it (I do have the stat requirement) and its doing virtually no damage.
I thought that it was literally zero, or that I was just missing every hit, but eventually it did bring down the drowners health to about 80% after a lot of hits.
Bug?

[Daigoji Gai]

What act are you on? Have you invested in the 2 handed skills? What is your str stat? What is your 2 handed proficiency level? There are a myriad of numbers that impact weapon damage.

[Lev]

Show your build and weapon

[[DeusVult] Eisengrind]

I don´t understand how melee works at all. I play stealth bow and had to use a one-handed sword for a quest. I have a one-handed skill of 20 and STR of 1. I killed enemies in act 2 with 2 hits. I am level 43 but still this is super weird because this means your stats mean actually nothing and dmg comes from your lvl.

[Sjark]

Why are you switching to Giant's Sword at level 20?
It's worse than a regular Great Axe, which is what I'm using at the moment.
Giant's Sword: 32-35 dmg
Plain white Great Axe with 0 upgrades: 46-50

If anything, it should be talked about the damage on the two-handed quest rewards. I've yet to find a single two-handed weapon that wasn't white, that has been worth switching to because they all have so low damage compared to the white items I find.

I'm mostly 1-shotting human sized enemies, with 7 points into the two-handed tree. Anything human looking can even be knocked down with a simple push-attack lol

[Meliodafu]

This sword (as well as the whole two-handed weapon build) is not just strong, but too strong. I went with him for the second half of the first act, as soon as I met the minimum requirements, and he killed almost everything he could with one blow.

[balmung]

Have no idea about this specific sword, but at lvl 29 skill lvl 70+ i one-shot everything that is not a boss with 2h hammer. What's interesting is that Wyrd Knight still mops up the floor with my unconscious body(I pulled out Excalibur with healing potions but i'm in act 2)

[Smartik1]

Originally posted by DeusVult Eisengrind:

I don´t understand how melee works at all. I play stealth bow and had to use a one-handed sword for a quest. I have a one-handed skill of 20 and STR of 1. I killed enemies in act 2 with 2 hits. I am level 43 but still this is super weird because this means your stats mean actually nothing and dmg comes from your lvl.

No idea, at lvl 30 with 1 handed lvl like 35. STR is 1 as well. I play a mage, tried both sword and scepter for melee, which worked fine on the first map. In the 2nd act, my sneak attacks do maybe 10% of their hp bar, anything beyond that is like 1% and barely shows on the hp bar. Melee and ranged are not viable at all for me. I'd expect it to be weak, but I wouldn't expect it to do this little.

[Torkhi]

lv 9 strength, while the sword requires 8.
I had gone 2-hand the entire game, so my build is based around it.
It's the Giants Sword from Senán the Giant.

[Torkhi]

My thinking is that it may be a bug.

[thanoskulo]

Im using poison knights gs +6 with 16 str and build offensevly and Im destroying everything
weapon dmg 255-275
So either you are build wrong or its a bug
In my case I do no dmg with magic but I understand that it is because of my build I had tried to go hybrid before and it didnt work but I havent respeced and I have leftover points in spi and some spells
At act 2 atm

[invalid ******* name]

I'm currently using the giant's sword at lvl 17 with around 11 str, 7 end. Perks into 2H damage boost and 2H crits. 1 shotting smaller mobs with heavy sneak attacks and 2 shotting most everything else.