The Rohirric Royal Lance, the elite pike, has buggy bonus damage.  Noticeable on players, but who uses a spear?  Very noticeable on mercs, since with the very fast attack rate, this should be the best merc weapon in the game.

The damage displays normally, but when you check it in your Char window, or the damage once equipped on a merc, it's way lower than it should be.

These pics are all taken in town, with no auras active, so the damage difference is entirely due to the spear being buggy.  And some from different equipment as well. The item display covers the damage, so I cropped it out of another SS and inserted it into the upper right corner to save space.

The Rohirric Lance is the exceptional pike, and it's somewhat less potential damage and doesn't have the bug.  To recap what the pics show:

• Rohirric Royal Lance: 61-463 = 320-1482 on a merc.
• Rohirric Royal Lance: 62-369 = 323-1215 on a merc.
• Rohirric Lance: 73-437 = 722-3087 on a merc.
• Gold Lossarnach Axe: 45-75 = 403-593 on a merc.

Even a crappy 45-75 polearm does almost as much damage as the 2 elite spears, and note the minimum damage?  It's actually higher once the merc bonus is applied.  Also note that the damages for the two elite spears are listed in white, when they should be in blue.  It looks like the merc's strength bonus isn't applying, somehow.

I do not see the source of this bug, all of the weapons are 100 Str for bonus, and have proper 2H damage bonus listings, and I don't see any typos in "weapons.txt".