Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Beta Worried about close combat lack of complexity

Only daggers grant bonus damage from attacking from the back. Enemies can use that too, but only enemy rangers use daggers so far, and they mostly only attack from the front (but they can inflict bleeding with normal status effects).

Yes, the combat seems sufficiently deep. There are Talents such as Bully that let you take advantage of negative status effects on enemies to inflict extra damage