Attacks are skills that directly damage enemies, usually using your equipped Martial Weapon. Spells are not Attacks.
Mechanic
Unarmed Attacks
Unarmed Attacks are Attacks which are performed while Unarmed and use your character's base Unarmed Damage where other Attacks would use the base Damage from a Martial Weapon.Catalog version 0.5.4d
No direct 0.5 patch change is linked to this page. The displayed values are current for catalog version 0.5.4d.
What Unarmed Attacks means
PoE2 definitionUnarmed Attacks are Attacks which are performed while Unarmed and use your character's base Unarmed Damage where other Attacks would use the base Damage from a Martial Weapon.
Attacks which can be performed while Unarmed but draw their base damage from other sources, such as skills which use a Shield to attack, are not considered Unarmed Attacks.
Related mechanics
7 linkedAttacks are skills that directly damage enemies, usually using your equipped Martial Weapon. Spells are not Attacks.
Unarmed Damage refers to the Hit Damage of Unarmed Attacks. As such, Unarmed Damage is always Attack HitDamage.
Any damage that isn't damage over time is Hit damage.
Any damage that isn't damage over time is Hit damage.
Any damage that isn't damage over time is Hit damage.
Any damage that isn't damage over time is Hit damage.

