>Why would it carry to the kick? If the damage still goes
>through, on a skill that has nothing to do with the weapon
>type of damage, why if you are to learn off the mistake should
>it be null?

Because then it's easy to practice skills and spells on mobs you're pretty much never going to kill because you're not doing physical damage to them. :)

It was dumb (many years ago) that the best way to learn a fighting skill was by not really fighting so... we changed it. Poof!