Ok, I'm a little confused. I could experiment myself, but it seems to me that the synopsis is either:
1) None of the Damage-Increasing skills actually add the damage they say they do, or
2) They all work fine--and the bonus just doesn't show up on the Attributes tab, or
3) Some of the skills (like Axe Expertise) do work but don't show up on the Attributes tab, while others (like True Shot) don't work at all.
So which is it? Was this decided for certain? I note that the last post on the 'Game still buggy' thread was about six weeks ago. Any new info since then?
Oh, and not that I'm doubting anyone's word btw; just that I may want to restart now and fight through the orcs as well as the Catacombs--and I want to know if I would, for example, be wasting skill points by taking Axe Expertise.