Doing little damage?

[Norskebeist]

I'm only tickling the enemies and I have learned 2 combat skills that increases my damage and I have an axe that does 30-35 damage.

Still I just have to circle an enemy while my companion kills them. I'm playing on hard.

Anything to be done about this?

[Duncan]

Yeah, get a better weapon.

[hyperion]

Originally posted by Duncan:

Yeah, get a better weapon.

This and level up. And avoid enemies that are a lot stronger than you.

[FireShark]

If you aren't doing combos followed by your special attack you will never do much damage until much later in the game.

[Kaerius]

The skill Modify Weapon is a great way to improve your damage, higher tiered weapons increase damage by a lot. I have a War Bow II that 4 shots the big hulking Fighting Colossus robots.

Going the ranged route, the first melee weapon that really made me an effective melee fighter is the unique sword that a certain trader in Goliet has in her shop(you'll need to steal it). Requires: 30 str, 60 dex.

But basically once your weapon has at least 40-50 damage, you'll see a marked improvement in lethality, and it just goes up from there. I'm carrying an arsenal of different ranged weapons, plasma rifles are particularly effective and useful, but the ammo costs 4 elex each, which is 4x what an arrow or energy cell for the laser rifle costs.

[Kampfkekskrieger EXP Folk Master]

Its normal, try to survive, explore a lot, get enough loot, to fill your pockets enough to what you need, expect to travel all magalan to get money and find some strong weapons, and find a way to level up over time. On ultra, on level10 I only START to kill easy/young/sick targets like critters or you know what. Avoid the rest except you have a companion or need to kill someone for a quest, then buy powerful spells and focus it down. Thats how I do it. There are enough topics about this here. I love it how they all dispair like me in the game hahaha :-)
PS: The drone robots are quite useful if you find them and make them work again. There are several places to get one.

[Dredd]

Combo, combo, combo

watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS2xD9F98Kw

[小冰块]

Originally posted by The Doctor:

Combo, combo, combo

watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS2xD9F98Kw

That not the issue on combo or attack, the stats and damage is way too low to be true on difficulty or ultra mode.
Basically when you haven reach your 3rd or 4th swing combo you already lay down dead on the floor or you can be dodging monkey without doing anything, which is not right on not showing our total HP/DPS/Defend on character screen.

[DeRossa]

Learn to do combo the correct way, fill the meter and then press Q when prompted, you deal massive damage even on Skull marked mobs.

[vladstad]

thanks for the vid

[Veritas]

Damage increases the higher your combo meter gets. Higher level enemies will laugh at your feeble blows.


Tbh the number of hits it takes to kill some things is just excessive. Yeah, it gets better, but whacking a dude 7500 times with an axe shouldn't be required to kill him. Something like a troll or beast or mech, sure, whack away! Humanoid targets should take more damage though.

[Kampfkekskrieger EXP Folk Master]

upgrade your weapon wasn't mentioned here, it belongs into this thread, for those who dont know. It belongs to the most vital damage increasers. 50 is not that notable compared to 30, though you can nimble the medium targets, or start to do that conveniently. 70-100 is what you are looking for when want serious combad against skekses and alps.

With enough spare money, you can buy elex potions (buy the ingredients if you didn't collect enough and mix them with the bought ingredients), if you need a few more strength to carry that weapon then. Just dont overexceed, it hurts your money pocket too much. YOu still need money left for ammo, or learning other skills, and the very costly armor later!

[Janx Moltar]

Haha, me trying to play the game like Skyrim
Tho one flaw on these unkillable beasts is that NPCs are dying left and right from me unintentionally conga-lining those beasts across half of the map trying to avoid fights

So, yeah, I guess its intentional that some critters are untouchable for half of the game. Could be defined it bit better in-game, rather than frustrate players to seek spoilers on webs.

[Amelia]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion