Damage Types

Different attacks do different types of damage, and different enemies may be resistant or particularly vulnerable to certain damage types. The basic types are:

Icon	Damage Type	Weapon Types
Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Blunt	Hand-to-Hand, Club, Staff, Harlequin Frame, Stormwaker Frame, Sharpshot Frame
Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Slashing	Axe, Great Axe, Great Sword, Sword, Scythe, Katana, Great Katana, Valoredge Frame
Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Piercing	Dagger, Polearm, Archery, Marksmanship, Shuriken, BoomerangError creating thumbnail: File missing

Exceptions

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.

Damage Type Modifiers by Monster Family

Family	H2H (Blunt)	Impact (Blunt)	Slashing	Piercing
Bees				1.25
Bat Trios				1.25
Rocs		0.75Error creating thumbnail: File missing	0.75	1.25
Birds				1.25
Colibri				1.25
Corses*	1.125	1.25		0.75
Doomed* Error creating thumbnail: File missing	0.875	0.875		1 Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Elementals	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25
Flans (Normal Mode)	0.75	0.75	0.875	1 Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Flans (Spiked Mode)	0.25	0.25	0.375	0.50 Error creating thumbnail: File missing
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				1.50Error creating thumbnail: File missing
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	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	1.125	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
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

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):

Carbuncle Blood Pact Damage Type Poison Nails Piercing	Ifrit Blood Pact Damage Type Punch H2H Burning Strike H2H Double Punch H2H Flaming Crush H2H	Titan Blood Pact Damage Type Rock Throw Impact (Ranged) Rock Buster Impact Megalith Throw Impact (Ranged) Mountain Buster Impact	Leviathan Blood Pact Damage Type Barracuda Dive Slashing Tail Whip Impact Spinning Dive Slashing
Garuda Blood Pact Damage Type Claw Piercing Predator Claws Slashing	Shiva Blood Pact Damage Type Axe Kick H2H Double Slap H2H Rush H2H	Ramuh Blood Pact Damage Type Shock Strike Impact Chaotic Strike Impact	Fenrir Blood Pact Damage Type Moonlit Charge Impact Crescent Fang Piercing Eclipse Bite Slashing
Diabolos Blood Pact Damage Type Camisado Blunt (H2H or Impact?)

Physical Blue Magic damage types

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 Error creating thumbnail: File missing