Larian Studios Forums Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga / Flames of Vengeance (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Weapon Configuration Damage ?

I've got a magical sword that does 6-10 Melee and is enhanced with an 8+ magic increase. When I add a Light Battle shield that has no enhancements or charms the sword's magic melee increases to 15-15. Two other weapons I have do not have an increase. Why, and are there other bonuses through weapon type and configuration?

Thanks.

Is it the description on the sword's stats that increases, or the damage listing in the inventory window? The sword itself should not change, AFAIK; there are several reasons the listed damage might.

Does the shield have an intelligence or magic damage bonus, etc?

The bonuses from the one handed expertise and sword and shield skills may be different (though that would effect normal and magical damage).

Are you duel wielding? Equipping the shield could have switched the averaged damage of two weapons (the off-hand with a large penalty until the dual wield skill is boosted) to the damage of one weapon. Again, though, that should effect normal damage as well.

With a new weapon:

(Magical) Sorcerer's Magical Heavy Iron Warhammer of Destruction
Melee Damage: 2-3
Magic Damge: 19-24
Critical Chance: 5%
+4 Intelligence
Empty Charm Slot
Increased Magical Damage: 20

Completely stripped down with only this hammer on my character that has 107% Magic Damage and all deafult 1s in weapon skills:

Melee: 2-3
M Melee: 42-44
Critical: 5%

Adding a Light Battle, Regular Metal, or Light Nightbringer shield with no Int boosts:

Melee: 2-3
M Melee: 61-67
Critical: 2.5%

The one thing I noticed is that all these shields are (Heroic) and in green font.

Do you have several points into "Sword and Shield" expertise?

Either the shields have a hidden bonus, the Sword and Shield skill has some effect not listed in the description, or this is a glitch...

Damage rises fast with shield+sword than single blade I noticed.

So it may not have been a bug at all...

As I wrote, I put no skill points into any weapon mastery, so Shield and Sword is at level one.

As far as a glitch, I repeated the boss fight at Maxos Temple a few times as a learning experience and after one victory my magic melee went back down to the 40s range. This surprised me and I reloaded before looking to see if I was still under some status attack, but if no such attack is used in that fight then there is a glitch.

Thanks.