Damage Formula working for my character but not enemies - they're hitting 0 damage every time?

[lvkennelly]

So I'm using the damage formula a.atk - b.def * 1.32 which is working fine for my characters but when the enemies attack, they're hitting 0 damage every time and I cannot for the life of me work out why! I've calculated all the numbers in the formula to check they work and they always work as I've predicted for the character but not for the enemy. I've checked that my character has a hit rate and all that stuff I cannot work out what I'm doing wrong? I'll put some screenshots if anyone can work it out I'd be really grateful!

Example of stats I'm using:
my character:
atk - 16
def - 16

enemy:
atk - 30
def - 6

So I've worked it out with the formula my character should do about 8.08 damage (which he does) and the enemy should do about 8.88 damage 30 - (16 * 1.32, which is 21.12) so 30 - 21.12 = 8.88 but it's doing 0 every time?

 

[Pine Towers]

Could the playtest actor be equipped with some armor that increases DEF?

 

[Andar]

can you give a screenshot of the skill as well? it might be something there.

One additional comment: the add skill attack on the enemy is completely without function, the enemies are using the attack pattern for their skills and don't even have a list of learned skills where that trait would be added

 

[lvkennelly]

Thanks for the help both of you! I still can't work out what's wrong with it, but I created a new attack skill solely for enemies to use with a different formula (a.atk * 5 / b.def * 2.2) and that seems to work fine for some reason! But I'm still curious why the same formula for the player doesn't work! I'll attach the attack skill I was talking about before! And thanks Andar, I did think that! Just added it then as a last desperate attempt to try and make it work not that it had any effect haha!