Damage cap question.
 

My epic rogue is level 13, and is meleeing for 40s at the highest


Wiki says:

levels 10-19 - damage cap is 28

Why am I bypassing this cap?

Is the wiki just out of date?

Backstab goes over the cap. Normal Melee shouldn't.

It isn't really a hard cap. High strength will cause you to hit for somewhat more than those damage caps with normal melee.

str + piercing skill / 100 = ___ x weapon damage. (as far as i know)

The damage caps refer to the maximum modal hit based on weapon damage (2x). In other words, a damage cap of 28 means a 14 dmg/30 delay weapon will (all other factors being equal) deal the same amount of damage as a 200 dmg/30 delay weapon. However, this cap does not prevent a character from benefitting from the normal max hit formula posted above. So a level 15 character, for example, with a weapon skill of 80 and 220 strength would have a max hit of 42 when using a weapon with 14 or more damage.

((220+80)/100)*14