Problems With Attacking!!!!!!

Don't know if this has been answered yet but I'm having problems with my Prof W/Mo and attacking in Nightfall. I have a firery dragon sword with max dmg and 12 points in swordman but I only do dmg if I'm using skills all other times I hit for 0. This is happaning on alll nightfall baddies

Does this even happen on Fanged Ibongas on Istan?

Even on the critters outside of Kamadan? Sounds like a bug to me. Try a different sword (might help) and report the problem to A-Net.

I'm guessing you're using a shitty sword against those Kournan Dervishes with Armor of Sanctuary.

Once I accidentally put all my points into hammer mastery instead of axe mastery. lol That might be the case!

Seriously though, perhaps, someone correct me if i'm wrong, but if your weapon has a req of 13 swordsmanship, and you only have 12, it won't do the max damage because you didn't meet the requirement? Maybe that's the case.

Another thing is, in Nightfall, alot of enemies have good skills. Such as the Dervish(Armor of Sanctity as another poster said), ele(Stoneflesh Aura), etc.

nope its a max dmg firey dragon sword of swordmanship and my attrabute points are in swordmanship and its aganist everything in Nightfall! My attributes for swordmanship is 13 and the req for the wep is 11!

13 is to low for melee weapon, 15-16 is more exceptable. Dont spread out your attribute points to much, focus on 1 main skill be it sword, axe, hammer. And see if the enemy you're fighting have enchantment on them or someone hexed you.

In NF dervish, earth ele, prot monk, paragon and necro can cut down your dmg output, also condition such as weakness can affect your dmg as well.

Lastly you should have more than 1 main weapon, FDS is nice to look at but what would you do if you come across enemy with high armor VS element?
And by the way, what've you got on your skills bar?

sorry for the misunderstanding but its not 13 attribute points its swordmanship at 13 swordmanship is maxed out plus 1 sorry for the mix up my skills do bout 45-90 or so dmg

Could it be that you are attacking low level foes?

no I'm not attacking low levels and if I was I should be doing way more then 0!

oh yeah! I was thinking of exp. sorry

A Wammo with a Fiery Dragon Sword..... there's something you don't see everyday.

Maybe you could post a screenshot of you attacking in both Elona and another continent. Also, could you post your attributes, skills and weapon to clarify a lot for us?

Doesn't the Strength attribute have a lot to do with warrior damage as well?

Yes, but it only comes into play when an attack skill is used.

Lots of enemy mobs cast weakness on you also, check for that along with the eles and dervishes that have armor boosting spells.

And even then... it's still a paltry amount.
At least Strength gives us Flail

Yes strength has alot to do with a tanks ability to deal damage. It lets the warrior penitrate the enemy's armor. with low strength not much damage can be done, basicly the warrior's attacks would quotes "glance" off the armor of the enemy. so you pretty much want high strength to go with the other attributes.

I hope this guy is being sarcastic. This is what Strength does:

When an attack SKILL is used, you get armor penetration by a PERCENTAGE equivalent to your Strength attribute. So if you use an attack skill against a 60AL target with 9 Strength, the enemy gets 91% of their normal armor bonus, meaning 54.6AL. At 12 Strength, they get 88% of their armor bonus, meaning 52.8AL. It's still completely pathetic either way, with a change of less than 8 AL. Obviously it takes away more raw AL from higher-armor targets since it's a percentage, but even then it's nothing that spectacular.

Anyway, on the OP's problem. Please take a screenshot of you attacking one of the level 1 enemies outside of kamadan with your attribute window up. Post it on imageshack or something and link to it here. We'll be able to help you more if you do that.

What we specifically need to see in the screenshot:

Your Swordsmanship level
The amount of damage you're doing with your attack
The enemy you're attacking

If you could post a screenshot with your weapon's stats, that would be nice too.

I have the same problem... Using Victo's.... Have 12 Axe mastery... if i am not using skills, i will usually hit 0 damage on mobs of my level... sometimes i hit 1 i think. Maybe the mobs just have very high amour? Thats what i thought but now i am not sure.