Now my W/Mo is a super-sissy!

Level 12 Warrior/Monk. 8 points in Swordsmanship. Barbed Ascalon Razor of Charrslaying 10-14 damage, +20% for Customization.

Level 3 Hulking Stone Elemental just outside Serenity Temple.

How much damage should I be doing? Earlier I was hitting for about 24-32 IIRC. Today, 6-8 damage. 6-8 damage versus level 3 Elementals, versus level 7 Storm Riders, against everything it seems. Something just ain't right with that.

Oh, and lag? How's about leaving Frontier Gate for Surmia, sprinting past all the Grawl, and yet though there's none around, being constantly hit? Spend a minute running to Surmia, get to the portal, pass through the portal but don't gate, explore an empty camp (all while being hit repeatedly), run back a bit...and then get repositioned right back near the Wall and find myself surrounded by Grawl. For the past minute or two though my PC was showing me wandering around, the actual game was doing something else entirely. I was in a fight I couldn't actually partake in as I couldn't target the Grawl attacking me.

This bug has also cost me my shot at the Survivor title. 57,000 XP without dying and then I get dropped out of the game while in a spot of bother.

This game's a wee bit shaky at the moment.

I have also problem with huge lag this days... today i was out for whole hour because of code 013 nad later on err=007. Hope they ll do something about it.

Experienced some lag problems today, main thing for me was the Nightfall soundtrack killed me. Never experienced the Directsong "just going to lock you up here for a minute" freeze bug as tracks changed but since downloading the NF soundtrack it's been awful. Thought it was my new catalysts to start with and went about retrofitting the previous version, didn't help. Had to install the MS DRM fix and then upgrade MP10, still stutters ever so slightly on track change but nothing close to the hard lock I was getting.

I've just run some experiments with different weapons.

15-22 Flaming Sword, lvl 9 Swords required. 9 points in Swordsmanship.
Hit level 3 Stone Elementals for 15-16 minimum, 31 damage on frequent crits

14-20 Hammer, lvl 3 Hammer required. 7 points in Hammer Mastery.
Hit level 3 Stone Elementals for 31 damage minimum, 49 on frequent crits

It looks to me like piercing/slashing damage or whatever swords are is broken. Blunt weapons and fire damage seem to be okay.

Maybe Stone Elementals have higher defense vs. piercing/slashing, so that's why you don't do as much damage as normal? Just a guess.

Acillios speaks the truth. =)

I have the same lag problem as you did. i ran outside of camp rankor to trade in my troll tusks to the collector, and i came up on the dolyak groups. After i BROKE aggro from the first group, i was still taking damage, and they were all warriors so this was weird. i was about to head into another group when i got jumped way back to the first group and found myself surrounded and stomped on.
this happened two times in a row, and this kinda stuff happens to me a lot but not from such a great distance as i was about 50 feet away from the first group when it happened. this isn't lag, this is a very bad bug.

That may be true, but doing only 6 damage with those stats is not only wrong, but goes has changed from earlier. The same character was doing 20 ish damage against level 3 Stone Ele's when fresh out of Ascalon using the same sword but at a lower level. And Storm Riders were only taking 6-8 damage too. If the resistance against piercing is the reason, it seems to me all the critters in Old Ascalon have been given +120 AL against piercing/slashing damage!

u cant slash/pierce rock :P