On the mutations page the piercing cold mutation shows a damage of ~4000 for frozen enemies that don't fall and die. But I usually only get 400 damage, is this a glitch or intentional because of enemy resistance? Because I was under the impression it would do ridiculous amounts of damage.

Yes I know that but for the mutation it's says that enemies that don't shatter should take around 4000 damage, but when I hit enemies with it, it usually does ~400 that's 10 times less damage than what's stated. Even if enemies have armour and other resistances it's seems a little much to be doing 10 times less damage.

Well I understand what you mean, but - the reason why I said that I do not have any numbers simply is that I adjustet the HUD in a way that I only see the absolute minimum on "information" about any foe.

And (I guess this would be so in real life) surely some are harder to kill then others, so I just keep killing them as long as it takes to see them dead. No book keeping from my side, and I do not really expect to have any monster breaking down just because of me/Geralt being near.