I've noticed an abundance of complaints regarding the NPC's hitting unpredictable amounts of damage.
This glitch cannot be fixed, at least as of right now, but we are diligently trying to solve the problem. The NPC's do damage with a lot of different factors taken into consideration. For now, we recommend being prepared to take 40+ damage when ranging any NPC.
Please cease the complaints regarding this for it is consuming board space which could be used to help us focus on other issues.
Any thread created to complain about this bug will be closed.