Haymaker is the talent that disables crits but prevents attacks from missing.

Haymaker STILL ALLOWS backstabbing for regular weapon attacks and the damage is calculated properly.
However, when backstabbing with a weapon skills, such as "Sawtooth Knife or rupture tendons," the "Backstab Critical" message appears but the damage increase fails to apply.

Example: as a dagger wielder with haymaker, regular weapon attacks will backstab (the Backstab notification appears) and the damage done will reflect crit damage properly
Example: as a dagger wielder with Haymaker, weapon skills (flurry, Sawtooth knife, rupture tendons, battle stomp, etc.) will backstab (the backstab notification appears) but the damage done DOES NOT reflect crit damage, but default tooltip damage. This means the game tells you you're backstabbing, but damage is not being increased at all.

Please fix ASAP, developers!! Haymaker is an amazing talent that makes assassins simply top-tier alongside archers and two-handers, and allowing backstabbing was a brilliant design choice but it is broken for literally every weapon skill. Even Flurry's backstab damage is not calculated properly!

Last edited by Syphon; 04/02/20 11:05 AM. Reason: Clarification