Damage types

Maybe I didn’t look hard, but I still don’t know difference between damage types. Is here somebody who can explain it?
I know how works weapon elements (or how it should work becous I’ve never tested), but what is blunt damage? What’s difference with piercing damage?

Just like players wearing armour, different mobs have different resistances to different damage types. Wights and crabs are especially resistant to piercing, and so on.

Blunt is like sheer force damage. Taking a huge sledge hammer and pounding someone with it. Blunt-force trauma is what it's called right?

Peircing is the opposite. You apply all your damage into a single point that stabs the opponent. I believe it's good against chainmail.

chain mails are piercing resistant actually, currently they use them @ shark dives so a shark bites and the teeth cant pierce trough because of the overlapping chains on the chainmail ^.^ pretty cool eh?

Thank you all. I got the logic.
But I wonder, is it just simple Rock-paper-scissors mechanic or something more. For example, my LS mates noticed that PGL more often interupt cast. Is it becouse of blunt damage of most PGL WS or becouse PGL get 2 hit(3 hit with Flurry) or it's just our imagination?

More hits = more chance of interruption, and yeah Damage types = Scissors Paper Stone.

Is there a list somewhere of what mobs are resistant/susceptible to what damage type?

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Originally Posted by Yoohre_WildRiver

chain mails are piercing resistant actually, currently they use them @ shark dives so a shark bites and the teeth cant pierce trough because of the overlapping chains on the chainmail ^.^ pretty cool eh?

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mid-evil chain mail was not pierce resistant. the only way to take down a knight would be to penetrate in between the plates of the armor. these weak spots were covered my chain mail which could resist a solid blow of a sword or a slash, but a thrusting sword would go through it.
the fencer is what ultimately led to the demise of the knight. fencers wore min armor so they could move fast and the thin blade was meant to piece those weak spots in the armor easier than a traditional sword. A stab around the arm pit region could penetrate the heart.

just some fun facts for yea.
modern shark proof chain mail is prob made of Kevlar or stainless steal or something even better

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Originally Posted by Jet

Is there a list somewhere of what mobs are resistant/susceptible to what damage type?

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I haven't noticed different damage types to have any effect on the type of mob you're fighting (I miss this from FFXI).

In FFXIV it seems damage types only serve as an affinity for weapon skills (slashing weapons will have greater damage on slashing weapon skills than blunt weapons would).

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

mid-evil chain mail was not pierce resistant. the only way to take down a knight would be to penetrate in between the plates of the armor. these weak spots were covered my chain mail which could resist a solid blow of a sword or a slash, but a thrusting sword would go through it.
the fencer is what ultimately led to the demise of the knight. fencers wore min armor so they could move fast and the thin blade was meant to piece those weak spots in the armor easier than a traditional sword. A stab around the arm pit region could penetrate the heart.

just some fun facts for yea.
modern shark proof chain mail is prob made of Kevlar or stainless steal or something even better

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I'm pretty sure plate became obsolete when black powder arms became too efficient against it, not because of fencers.

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the fencer is what ultimately led to the demise of the knight

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I laughed. +1 to Frein.

Frankly, the decline of plate started when a crossbow could hurl a bolt with enough force to penetrate it. After that it just came down to increasing ease of use of mechanical/chemically-assisted projectile weapon that could replicate the piercing power which then culminated in black powder weaponry that the average foot-soldier could use without too much specific training that we saw plate armor relegated to parade uniform.

Damage types work.

Example: When a crab goes down into lockdown mode, you can use a piercing type skill to get past the shell and inflict damage.

Didn't hammers already pwn the shit out of plate?

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Originally Posted by Seikninkuru

Didn't hammers already pwn the shit out of plate?

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Ask yourself this: Would you rather take a hammer blow to your fully exposed chest or to your padded and plate protected chest? I know which I prefer.

That's interesting about the crabs in the defensive mode. I never understood why some of my attacks would deal damage and some wouldn't. But if Feint is supposed to be piercing damage, coming from Lancer, it would explain why my standard attacks as a Marauder might have done very little damage, yet Feint did what seemed to be full damage.

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Originally Posted by Ashaylin

Damage types work.

Example: When a crab goes down into lockdown mode, you can use a piercing type skill to get past the shell and inflict damage.

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I was under the impression that crab lockdown simply deflects non-TP attacks but has no effect on TP-attacks.