"Staff damage does knockdown damage" does not spare dogs :(

[Sentient_Toaster]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1813672504

That's the Staff of the Dikastes (transmog'd), with no elemental effects in play. The staff properly does nonlethal damage to humans, bears, wolves... but it still kills dogs. It's theoretically possible that my (handful) of points in "melee attacks have x% chance to do 25% assassin damage" mastery kicked in, but it's like 3.4% or so and I don't know whether that's even supposed to bypass the engraving.

[UbiBaron]

Thanks for the report.

I might question initially why you are striking dogs with a large stick

Although potentially monstrous, have you tried it against other dogs and does it always kill them?

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[Sentient_Toaster]

Hm. I think there was another dog that got caught up in a melee and died from it. I don't remember hitting any other dogs with that staff, intentionally or not.

If I were to guess wildly, maybe animals not subject to "Tame Animals" don't have a KO state? That applies to... hm, wolves, leopards, lions, lynx or bears. I suppose testing to see whether paralyzing arrows KO or kill goats or (regular, domesticated) pigs would clarify.

[UbiBaron]

I think that you would be on the money there, it's likely they either have a Dead or Alive status as there would be little reason for them to have it.

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[Sentient_Toaster]

Chickens, goats also seemingly cannot be knocked out (tried with paralyzing arrows); they simply die.

Wild boar, interestingly, can be knocked out even though AFAICT you can neither tame nor carry KO boars; nor can you loot them, until you kill them.

[UbiBaron]

Interesting, thanks for testing that out.

Perhaps the boars were originally intended to be tamed or there is a quest where you need to knock them out.

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