Psycho Knife showing wrong DPS on Skeleton Guardian

[kas333]

I used the knife to kill the Guardian fast in journey mode but my DPS counter was showing numbers way above the actual damage dealt.
I had god mode enabled.

 

[punchready]

The DPS Meter is known to be completely broken with melee damage on both the PC and Mobile versions ever since it was introduced. Basically, for melee hits, the game counts the "raw" damage dealt in a hit, before any changes specific to the target happen to it (defense, etc) and before critical hits are considered, instead of the actually inflicted damage.