Backstab Perk Bug?

[ManfromtheRedRiver]

So I took the Backstab perk which states that is gives sneak attacks with one armed weapons 6x damage, but it is only giving me 4x damage on sneak attacks. Does anyone know why? And how to fix it?

[Bomb Bloke]

Doesn't ring any bells. Some more information on the weapons you've tested, as well as the method of testing + reading the results, might shed some light on the matter.

One possibility is that you're expecting enchantment damage to be affected - the bonus only applies to physical damage.

[alexander_dougherty]

Backstab bonus only works with daggers, with any other weapon you get the 4x bonus instead, I usually use a dagger with soul trap enchantment, and a blask soulgem, but that's a personal thing.

[Stellar Fox]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Backstab bonus only works with daggers, with any other weapon you get the 4x bonus instead, I usually use a dagger with soul trap enchantment, and a blask soulgem, but that's a personal thing.

And thats x16 damage not x6

[smr1957]

Originally posted by Stellar fox:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Backstab bonus only works with daggers, with any other weapon you get the 4x bonus instead, I usually use a dagger with soul trap enchantment, and a blask soulgem, but that's a personal thing.

And thats x16 damage not x6

no - that's for Assasin's Blade perk (see: http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Sneak )

[ManfromtheRedRiver]

Yeah, according to the perk tree (and as posted directly above) Assasin's Blade is what affects daggers specifically at 15x normal damage. Backstab is supposted to apply 6x damage to any one handed weapon, which is what I'm using. I'm not doing my own math either. The text that flashes in the upper left corner of the screen says "Sneak attack for 4.0X damage!"

I may have at least isolated where the problem is coming from though. I've been using jovalleau's "Unarmed Fighting Styles" mod ( https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50834?tab=description ) so that I can use my Khajiit's claws as one handed weapons. The unarmed weapons the mod gives me to equip levels my one handed skill and applys the one handed perks. So they appear to in every way be one handed weapons that use my unarmed melee animations, but when I just tested the sneak attack damage with a random sword I picked up I got the 6.0X damage multiplier instead of the 4.0X. I still hope there's some way to fix this though. Kind of sucks to find out 14 levels into the game that the playstyle I was building for isn't working...