Talk:Damage Calculation/@comment-72.252.153.176-20160109070801/@comment-1953451-20160119000859

I think this has some credibility. I notice that when I stagger an enemy, or when they go into what looks like a more helpless stance, they take more damage.

Like when you are attack a bandit, and they are still in a fighting stance and can attack you, but when they start to sumble backwards, they take much more damage than when you were attacking before.

This appears to be a "broken defence", but I don't actually know what's happening.

It's the same when I use five-fold fury on someone a lot. Whey they finally "get overwhelmed" they take more damage in this state. But I would be unable to tell if my magick damage is also added to it.

If this is the case, then having a mixed strength + magick attack weapon like enchanted daggers would work fine if you make sure to break the defence first with strong moves.