Hmmm...just pegged that fallen with a throwing knife that the character screen says does 6-16 dmg...and he's still alive. IIRC, fallen have 1-4 hp. So let's do some testing.

Findings: throwing weapons now apparently benefit 100% from both dex and str when calculating damage. My level 2 barb, using normal throw, slew 4 out of 6 of corpsefire's minions in ONE HIT. Corpsefire himself took three hits, and after two he was down to a pixel or six of life.

Okay, need a target for left throw. Hmm, a Garg Beast. 15 knives later, the thing keels over dead.

This is not looking good.

Apparently, left throw on a barb does either punching damage (woot!) or melee damage. More testing is needed. Also need to test with Double Throw, to see if it does the same thing. Normal throw apparently gets full benefit of both str and dex when calculating damage...considering that my clvl 2 barb with 30 str and 25 dex was doing 6-16 damage with throwing knives used in the right (sword?) hand.

Anyone else got some input? I though I had a cool idea, but it doesn't look like it's going to work until patch 1.10. Arrrgh! Now I have to do sword and dagger. Oh well.

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