You spot a weakness in a scaly zrentacle demon, and whirl a short mithril-shod staff named 'Dawnbringer' past its guard!
You have become better at hand to hand!
Your quick strike wounds a scaly zrentacle demon.
A scaly zrentacle demon is writhing in agony.

The damage is a lot lower as well so I'm assuming it's using my hands and not my staff - but doesn't make sense considering I'm spinning my staff to hit them.

Is it a bug?