Possible bug with Candy Cane Weapon Damage ?

I'm using a 15-15 Candy Cane bow and hitting the 60AL target in the Great Temple of Balthazar area. I'm only doing 5 damage. Comments ?

Psst! Armor reduces damage. :O

Psst !! All damage calculations are based on 60AL. Next ?

Is that so? Because I don't think so. You'd still do a measly 10-10 damage, but armor will always affect your damage (Unless of course, you battle someone in pvp who's running around naked :S)

OK, I figured it out. I had a brain fart with the no attribute requirement of the candy cane weapons. I still need marksmanship of 12 to get the stated damage. Silly me.

Um the no requirement means that you won't need a requirement in any attribute it will still do the same damage. And armor does come into play when damage is being done and it really doesn't matter what the damage is, it is just supposed to be a fun item not meant to farm FoW.

I'm not sure how all these game mechanics work, but I'm pretty sure that if a weapon such as the bow didn't have a requirement you would do the stated damage, but only a percentage of it based on your attribute mastery on it. If you have a 15-28 (req 11) bow, you would do (I forgot % exactly) only 91% of that stated damage. If you had 12 bow mastery, you would do 100% and at 13 a little higher. With a candy cane weapon, I guess you would need 100% to get that much damage, or it'll be at a minimal damage if you have 0.

The OP is absolutely right on game mechanics. You need a 12 in Weapon Mastery to do stated damage to a 60AL target, irrespective of the weapon req.

Sorry, you're right. It has been researched that the damage begins at 60 AL when the requirement is met. Wouldn't know how to explain it then. I wouldn't worry about it neither.

i had that guy on my RA team the other day... sadly enough he was a mending warrior as well.

That was useless - it's still a bow with a damage attribute. It still needs to function according to the games laws. The OP was just trying to figgure out why their damage calculations were off.