What's the point of Physical and Magic Damage Types

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Originally Posted by Kolsykol

Edit: And yes this isn't a medieval simulator, the attacks are very flashy I fail to see how this is a problem...
If you don't like it then there are medieval simulators or less flashy games you can play o_O.

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Does this forum have a reading comprehension problem because I consistently notice an inability to read what somebody has said and infer a completely different meaning from a post than what was actually meant.

I never said I dislike it I said it makes it difficult to distinguish magic from physical. Especially Warriors who can basically be considered geomancers but nothing they do to my understanding is counted as magical dmg.

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Originally Posted by YukikoKurosawa

Does this forum have a reading comprehension problem because I consistently notice an inability to read what somebody has said and infer a completely different meaning from a post than what was actually meant.

I never said I dislike it I said it makes it difficult to distinguish magic from physical. Especially Warriors who can basically be considered geomancers but nothing that do to my understanding is counted as magical dmg.

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If it says "deals x aspected damage" then its magic damage. Otherwise physical.

Doesn't do anything outside Eureka and Bozja anymore. They used to have piercing, blunt, and slashing damage buffs on enemies which have been removed, and Bard used to have one of its abilities reduce enemies magic defense.

So its just flavor.

The only thing that matters is incoming damage types, usually raidwides and tank busters, and that doesn't say. Experimentation is what helps you figure that out.

It's probably just a holdover from The Olden Days(tm).

I have to ask, in the greater scheme of things... why it even matters. you are a cat girl who never dies, you carry 80+ minions and 50+ mounts on your person. bad places are highlighted with orange circles or boxes.

basically, its a game. pure entertainment. it does not always have to make sense.

My daggers do physical damage. My mudras do magic damage.

Easy.

They really need to indicate in the combat log what type of damage an enemy's attacks are dealing for mitigation purposes as well as mechanical clarity. Earth attacks in particular can be rather variable about whether or not they're flagged as physical or magical damage.

Another strange thing I realized only recently is that RDM's Fleche/Contre Sixte are specifically flagged as ranged physical damage and thus will get affected by associated mechanics like Leviathan's reflect shields.

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Originally Posted by Lieri

Otherwise its a boring game. Everyone just pokes everyone with a stick.

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Samurai's got you beat right there. You can get a wooden katana in the gold Saucer and just build your kenki up to max and literally shinten spam poke your enemies to death with your samurai stick. xD

From what I gather the only way to discern them in game is to read the battle tab of our chat or make one that specifically shows only messages about enemy skills. Whenever the log says "casting" the incoming damage will be magical and other messages like "prepares" will be physical. Not the most finesse way of doing it but without extra tools it is the best we have for now.

or just do it the old fashioned way: trial and error.

At least that's what I used to do. But I get it that not everybody wants to test that one by one. It would be nice if they could put distinction i.e. differently colored cast bar. Orange cast bar = physical; Blue cast bar = magical; Unaffiliated can be any color they want to pick.

You see that spell the enemy mage is casting?..


...... that's definitely physical damage.
https://i.redd.it/sfqo5oy41nt41.jpg

And for the love of Hydaelyn, don't even start with "Just make it all one type of damage" to dumb it down...