seasnake on Nov 22, 2012 wrote:

When you use certain attacks and hit 8 or 9 times with it and the last 4 or 5 hits or whatever are always 0, I fail to understand what that means. Does that mean as I level up those 0's will eventually do more than 0 or will they always do 0? Its frustrating to see 0 after 0 after zero time and time again. To complicate the matter, the numbers before the 0's often seem to add up to more damage than what I believe I see those being hit actually take. Case in point I see around 6 or 7 hits all landing at around 40 damage each and then when I look at what I just hit I only see 100 damage actually recorded. I don't know if I trust multi-attack damage much as a consequence.

I believe its that the enemy has resist so it ends up doing 0 damage, like in wizard where people are immune. This happens with my brother's Billy Kidd and my Emmet for critical hits. It happens quite a bit, but you just have to get over it.

Silent Amber 50 Swashbuckler

I've seen the odd time when 0's pop up, though I think I have actually seen it more from enemies attacking me (or my crew), than vice versa. The first hit always does damage but then sometime into the multi hits, the damage becomes 0's.

I also agree about there being something fishy with the multi damage pop-ups of how much damage the hits are doing. I've fought against things with ~80 health left, and hit with a 12,12,12,12,12,64, and the enemy is still alive with ~8-24 health left. I even thought at one point that maybe the "big" hit at the end of multi-hit combos might be a "total damage dealt in this attack" kind of thing - but 5 hits of 12 does not hit 64, so I am at a loss. I see the enemy health bar go down little by little with each hit, and the last hit does seem to be the biggest health drop, but the numbers don't jive.

I've noticed this most with Billy the Kid. At first I thought it was just Billy hitting that max number against a single target since it was always the last couple of numbers, but the total doesn't come close to what my Swashbuckler is able to generate. Also the resist check comes in between attacks not during the middle (or so how I understand it), so it shouldn't be a block or dodge maneuver. I also don't think this is resist checks, because sometimes the number will come up as 1. What ability is the enemy using to create that kind of resist?

It's a display issue on the client side that has to do with how we display the damage to you.

A multi-hit attack isn't really doing multiple hits-- on the server side, all the damage is applied in one lump sum.

But when we play back the animations for you, when we divide out the damage into multiple hits, sometimes there are incorrect 0's displayed.

We are working to clean up those messy 0's every time we find them!