Has anyone else noticed that the amount of damage induced in a backstab is disproportional to the type of enermy involved?
I have seen the same assassin do 148 pts damage to a mephit but only do regularly 60-90 odd points damage to most other tuff monsters etc.
Now doing that to the shadow dragon or other tuff enermy would have been great
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Backstab Damage
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Alison Entreri
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Backstab Damage
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It could be because certain monsters have resistences. I know that if you go after Greater mummies, then it doesn't do as much damage compared to a lowly kobold.
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Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. Also called the silhouette of passage, this phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.
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The fallen one
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I have to agree with you on the backstabb thing I usally always play a theif and I did not do the firkagg quest until I came back from underdark and some of those poor creatures in that quest recieved alot of backstab damage. I think one little kobold was hit with 194 points. I could not find a piece of him any where. hehehehe.
I think that some enemies have resistances to piercing and slashing damage. If you look at Icewind Dale (H of W) you will notice that they give you the amount of damage you deal and the amount the enemy resisted. The same may go for BG2, but they just don't tell you how much damage the enemy resists when you thump them.