The sad story of my bad damage output

[dukereg]

So I'm playing a Thalore Bulwark lvl47. It's my first character to get near the end of the game, and I was proud of myself for getting such a capable character for once. The only downside was that I don't do a lot of base damage, but my talents and prodigies make up for that somewhat.

I rarely found any good 1H weapons, but eventually I fould this great random +30%ish crit chance longsword with competitive damage and a few other nice stats. So I transmuted my old one and ignored reams of weapons that were good but not as good.

So I'm grinding farportals to get to lvl 50 and I notice that I can't hurt some carrion worm masses with my sword. At all. "Strange," I thought, "I have stacked +%physical damage and +%physical resistance penetration, at the expense of other lovely things. My damage is not this bad!".

I looked in the combat log and found my character was doing "0 blight" damage every hit, and not even mentioning physical.

I was about to report a bug when I decided to just double check my items and... the sword did blight damage only. I killed the boss, transmuted the blight sword in disgust and put on the best waraxe I happened to be carrying from the farportal and then went back and checked all the shops. None had anything better.

So here I am, grinding farportals for a decent weapon as well as levels.

That is my sad story. I can't stop laughing.

[Red]

At least you weren't fighting a Worm That Walks. You might have been doing zero damage, but that's better than healing your enemy with every blow.

[Marson]

Are you sure the worm mass wasn't running Unstoppable or similar? A blight-only sword isn't a bad thing anyway, as long as you have something else to fall back on for blight-resistant enemies. Though your phys pen doesn't help much.

Edit -- Nevermind, I was thinking of a different kind of worms.