The Official Dark Souls Thread - .....It Begins

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lestatdark said:

Again, Lightning damage isn't counted for criticals, nor is any kind of elemental damage. If you have a hard time believing it, try it out for yourself. Craft two Zweihanders differently, one to Lightning +4 and another to +14 and see what is the one doing a lot more damage. 

Iron Flesh has no elemental resistances, so you'll be receiving the normal elemental damage as you would receive without using it. That's why for PVP Iron Flesh is totally worthless, even without factoring the extreme slowdown you suffer. Strong Magic Shield is a plethora of times better as that critical attack wouldn't have caused any damage.

If this is true, then that means it's likely that the single riposte he did would probably empty out my entire hp bar (1590). I'm less curious about what mod he had on his wep but way more interested in how the hell he bashed my face in with the pommel of his sword while I was on the ground. Actually now that I think about it, considering that elemental damage isn't factored in crits, it makes me wonder even more how he was able to put that absurd amount of damage into his pommel-bash thing when he backstab'd me before that for barely any damage.

Google searches bring up nothing. My friend who somehow knows about tons of major exploits/etc couldn't find anything on it either.