[Dolalin]

Damage shield damage was announced this way too:

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Proof of the greatness of damage shields and of how weird EQ combat
chain of events can be:

a shriveled mummy was hit by non-melee for 13 points of damage
a shriveled mummy was pierced by thorns.
You have slain a shriveled mummy!
You gain experience!
You are stunned!
a shriveled mu bashes YOU for 3 points of damage
a shriveled mu's corpse2 tries to cast a spell on you, but you are
protected.
You are unstunned.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....o/KB_akXoEQS0J

Actually, DS damage doesn't get credited to anyone, cast one on a level 1
character and they'll be cursing you shortly. It'll look like this:

Player attacks a giant rat, but misses
giant rat says 'hit by non-melee for 24 points of damage'
giant rat attacks Player for one point of damage
you have killed a giant rat
<No xp message here>

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec....E/rH-EHw5CerQJ

And happens a lot in this long eqlog.txt I found from Sept 1999:

fire giant warrior says 'Hit By non-melee for 24 damage'
fire giant warrior was pierced by thorns.
fire giant warrior hits YOU for 89 points of damage.
fire giant warrior says 'Hit By non-melee for 24 damage'
fire giant warrior was pierced by thorns.
fire giant warrior hits YOU for 110 points of damage.

http://web.archive.org/web/200102240...qlog990918.txt