Damage Types

Some weapons have a different damage type than usual for their category.

• Rapier and Epee-type Swords deal Piercing damage. Some examples: Joyeuse, Degen, Fleuret.
  • Bilbo-type Swords, such as the Tuck, use a similar model as Rapiers, but still deal Slashing damage.
• The Swan Bilbo (Sword) deals Blunt damage.
• The Bourdonasse (Polearm) deals Blunt damage.
• The Crude Sword (Great Sword) deals Blunt damage.
• The Honebami (Great Katana) deals Blunt damage.
• The Chiroptera Dagger (Dagger) deals Slashing damage.
• The Vampiric Claws (Hand-to-Hand) weapon deals Slashing damage.
• The Birdbanes (Hand-to-Hand) weapon deals Piercing damage.
• When using the Monk Job Ability "Formless Strikes", the damage type of melee strikes and kick attacks is nonphysical, nonelemental. This damage will not be subject to any of the damage-type specific bonuses or penalties below.

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.

Family	H2H (Blunt)	Impact (Blunt)	Slashing	Piercing
Bees				1.25
Bat Trios				1.25
Rocs		0.75	0.75	1.25
Birds				1.25
Colibri				1.25
Corses*	1.125	1.25		0.75
Doomed*	0.875	0.875		1
Elementals	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25
Flans (Normal Mode)	0.75	0.75	0.875	1
Flans (Spiked Mode)	0.25	0.25	0.375	0.50
Flies				1.25
Ghosts*	0.50	0.50	0.75	0.75
Giant Bats				1.25
Hecteyes	0.75	0.75
Hounds			1.125
Imps				1.125
Ladybugs				1.50
Leeches	0.75	0.75
Magic Pots	1.25	1.50
Mandragoras				1.25
Mimics	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
Puks				1.25
Rafflesia			1.125
Skeletons*	1.125	1.25	0.875	0.50
Slimes	0.25	0.25	0.50	0.50

• 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 near 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)
• Verified ladybugs take extra damage from piercing by comparing Birdbanes to Tactician Magician Hooks +0, did not verify 1.25x or 1.5x modifier. -Sylph: Neiko

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):

Physical Blue Magic takes on Damage Types as well. Below is the list:

Blunt

Power Attack	Sprout Smack
Head Butt	Helldive
Bludgeon	Grand Slam
Jet Stream	Uppercut
Terror Touch	Sickle Slash
Dimensional Death (H2H)	Body Slam
Frenetic Rip	Frypan
Hydro Shot (H2H)	Tail Slap
Hysteric Barrage (H2H)	Cannonball (H2H)
Ram Charge	Asuran Claws (H2H)
Goblin Rush

Piercing

Wild Oats	Queasyshroom
Feather Storm	Screwdriver
Pinecone Bomb	Disseverment
Benthic Typhoon	Quadratic Continuum

Slashing

Foot Kick	Battle Dance
Claw Cyclone	Smite of Rage
Mandibular Bite	Death Scissors
Spinal Cleave	Vertical Cleave
Seedspray	Spiral Spin
Final Sting	Vanity Dive
Whirl of Rage	Delta Thrust

• Source: The Forbidden Art of The Immortals @ Allakhazam

--Yuuki 11:51, January 7, 2010 (UTC)