possible combat bug

Hey so I went to fight the guard today to check out the combat update... Anyway didn't go well and I got thrown in jail.

The weird thing is normally I can kill at least 3-4 guards without healing, and I had nearly full health. But the town guard absolutely destroyed me.

I'm wondering if there's a possibility protection isn't being counted into the equation, or possibly other factors. I feel like my armor did nothing.

Yeah but that basically means nothing for me. Basically I got a bit unlucky with my attacks, which is fairly normal. But I also got hit by almost all of the guards attacks and with full damage... Which is quite unusual.

Idk maybe someone else could confirm or refute that it seems to be not taking protection in the equation.

I have also ran into this issues. It seems like the enemies are either more powerful or my stats aren't being accounted for. I actually had a lot of different monsters damage me today when they would normally do either little to none.

Our stats are all way down. I started another thread in the general forum about it. You can see my stat differences before and after.

I can kill 5+ guards without a heal. Fought 1 today and had to retreat. Combat is no longer worth it. Time for us all to become farmers.

All of the enemies are stronger and I heal only 11 hp a day now. I'm definately not feeling the combat part now. I have spent years working to get where I am and now I'm as weak as when I started.

I'm pretty sure this is a BUG, maybe there were some intentional changes to make combat a little more difficult, but it seems like this could just be protection not working, maybe strength isn't helping damage ATM too.

The last change to enemies nerfed them quite a lot, they are more difficult to beat now than before that nerf. Im pretty sure its not going as desired so there's no reason to think combat is worse off right now.

I understand that people are upset with they way combat is right now, but everyone knows that this world is a work in progress and every day I am happy to be part of this world. I love the idea of being able to use a bow some time in the future and fully trust that Aro makes changes to make improvements rather than to **** us over. 

Waiting a while with combat till things are working as they should is a good suggestion, not the most preferable one to people that love fighting and killing monsters, but life is not perfect. On the other hand I can also imagine that some daring, brave and strong people are willing to help Aro by fighting things and giving feedback on what works and what doesn't work. 

We might not know how everything works, but I am sure Aro can draw some conclusions when given information

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Protection still isn't working right. I fought the town guard again which was unusually tough still. The stats in the battle said my protection was "7"... However my armor alone gives me 17 protection. My phys resistance is 8 so I normally have like 25 protection, but I figure that the benefit of phys res. might have been changed.

Armor is still bugged.