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, non-elemental. 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.

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

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