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:

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


 * Rapier and Epee-type Swords do Piercing damage. Some examples: Joyeuse, Degen, Fleuret.
 * Bilbo-type Swords such as the Tuck use the same model as Rapiers but do Slashing damage.
 * The Bourdonasse Polearm does Blunt damage.
 * The Crude Sword Great Sword does Blunt damage.
 * The Honebami Great Katana does Blunt damage.
 * The Vampiric Claws Hand-to-Hand weapon does Slashing damage.
 * When using the Monk Job Ability "Formless Strikes", the damage type of melee strikes and kick attacks is magic. 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

 * 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.
 * 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:


 * This means Ramuh would hit just as hard as Titan on pots (assuming he connected all 3 attacks)
 * Titan's ranged attacks are said to be "remote" and not classified as anything. They might be Impact (Blunt), H2H (Blunt), or Piercing (Impact most likely).
 * Source: Killing Ifrit

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


 * Source: The Forbidden Art of The Immortals @ Allakhazam