Different attacks do different types of damage, and different enemies may be resistant or particularly vulnerable to certain damage types. The basic types are:
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Damage Type |
Weapon Types
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Blunt |
Hand-to-Hand, Club, Staff, Harlequin Frame, Stormwaker Frame
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Slashing |
Axe, Great Axe, Great Sword, Sword, Scythe, Katana, Great Katana, Valoredge Frame
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Piercing |
Dagger, Polearm, Archery, Marksmanship, Shuriken, Sharpshot Frame, Boomerang
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Exceptions
Some weapons have a different damage type than usual for their category.
Despite having an uncharacteristic damage type when meleeing, these exceptions still use normal damage types during weapon skills. For example, when performing a weapon skill with Vampiric Claws or while using Formless Strikes and any Hand-to-Hand weapon, the damage type is Blunt.
Damage Type Modifiers by Monster Family
- Where not otherwised specified, the damage modifier is understood to be 1.0
- Reduced modifiers for undead monsters (marked above with *) will be raised to 1.0 for a short time if the monster takes damage from a Banish spell.
- The Warrior job ability Tomahawk raises reduced modifiers for any monster it is used on for 30 seconds (and +15 seconds per additional merit, up to 1:30). It is currently unknown if it raises the reduced modifiers to 1.0, or if there is less of an effect.
- Source: Vanad'iel Monsters (Japanese)
Avatar damage types
Avatars all do Blunt damage with their normal melee attacks.
The physical blood pacts, however, do 4 different types of damage (all physical BPs are melee damage unless otherwise specified):
- This means Ramuh would hit just as hard as Titan on pots (assuming he connected all 3 attacks)
- Diabolos' Somnolence and Nether Blast Blood Pact's have a longer range than other offensive magical blood pacts and deal non-elemental damage.
- Somnolence deals damage with an additional effect of Gravity.
- Nether Blast goes through shadows, Perfect Dodge and Invincible, it also deals extremely consistant 100%(?) accurate damage.
- Nether Blast may be more accurately classified as magical damage.
Physical Blue Magic damage types
Physical Blue Magic takes on Damage Types as well. Below is the list: