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um... yea.

Not sure how this is possible, but i swung my Powerhammer while slaying a herd of gualamas, and i hit the lair for 10,110 damage!

Now, this was a very lucky roll, but my question is.... is this possible or is it just because it wasa lair that for some reason i hit that hard?

It was with a power hammer 117-536 abouts with a 2hand hit 2.

Thanx... very puzzled... Cadi!

at novice heavy swordsperson only...

You probably hit the lair at just the right time. When a lair reaches a certain level in HP it automatically damages itself upon explosion. So if you hit it at just the right time you will see a damage output of 10k easily.

Were you hitting a lair? If so, I have done the same thing when I was a carbinier. I have a screenshot of myself hitting for 8-9k+ 7 consecutive timesagainst a lair. There might be a 'damage to lair' bug that would be interesting to replicate.

So, I think it's very possible that you hit for 10,110 against a lair. I've seen commandos hit for over 20k.

When a lair is either empty or just has an elite spawn left (mereks or gurks for example) your damage will go through the roof this way.

Unfortunately this is not true of NPC mission lairs so make sure you keep a cheap crappy sword handy to blunt on those things.

10,110 is definitely possible, I hit a Stormtrooper for 11,770, have a screen shot of it too. Just took the 1 hit to take him down

http://www.angelfire.com/ks2/wyrd/obscene-strike.jpg

I'd love to see more of something like this if anyone has some screen shots.

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When the layer is completely empty it has a huge damage multiplier. I hit a layer once for 32k damage with LLCsingle2. It was in a patch or two back.

Hit an Ewok as merely a novice for 8335 damage, my guildies were very surprised, especially the master commando who didn't even have chance to fire his flamer.

And recently did a run on Fort Tuskan with my PA and I got a couple of 10-11K hits on their wierd looking selves.

Yeah, that lair was out of mobs. The Devs added code for extra damage to empty lairs. They did thisright after they increased lair hitpoints (this was in response to the people noob'ing baznitch lairs a couple months ago).

Also, on mobs... don't forget melees get heavy damage bonuses against players and mobs holding rifles.

YeahI hit a lair today for 12,000 with my hammer at Novice 0,0,0,2. I was quite staggered . I found that hitting a lair without a special would be about 900 or so but with Hit2 it produced the 12k.

Dangit! I just made master and I still haven't seen any hits even as high as 4k, the double bleed is nice tho