If I had to bet I'd rather say activation, cooldown, animation and actual damage are all not properly syncronized and chancec are high it's not landing at all.

Makes up for immunity to neg levels not working I guess.

Sounds like a glance.

raybob wrote on May 25^th, 2015 at 1:52pm:


It was smitten?
Are you sure you're not a Bard using Fascinate?
Sounds like love at first smite?

DropBear wrote on May 25^th, 2015 at 4:03pm:

lol

Smite Evil does not do any light damage; perhaps you're referring to the pretty light show it puts on to signify the attack happened.  It is likely the attack may not coincide perfectly in synchronization with the flashy particle effect.

In the combat log, the second line raybob mentions hitting the target with Smitten is, according to the wiki, a debuff of -1 To-hit, damage, saves, and skill checks for your paladin levels as duration.

Also from the wiki, Smite Evil adds damage to your attack (it isn't rolled separately).  You add (3*Paladin level) + 7. This extra damage is only applied if the target is Evil, so should not be appearing on a training dummy (although the attack might say you hit it with Smite Evil, the damage should be a normal damage range).

Finally, you say you just made a new bladeforged.  All new bladeforged are provided bracers with +3% doublestrike on them, so you are quite probably doublestriking due to that.  As for 100% of the time, I'd have to see a video of that as proof.  If true, I wonder why the game isn't filled with bladeforged paladins doublestriking away at everything in sight.

I hope this clears things up a bit for you.