Evolution Of Final Fantasy 14 Combat Each Expansion

[Shurrikhan]

So you know, this is false. For example, Fleche on RDM is Piercing damage.

Nowhere in-game calls it piercing damage anymore. Not the battle-log. (It calls it only Physical damage.) Nor the tooltip. (It reads simply "Delivers an attack with a potency of 460." For context, magic damage is referred to instead as "Deals unaspected damage with a potency of...").

More importantly, though, if nothing can have its Piercing Resistance/Vulnerability affected uniquely, nor could Piercing Resistance/Vulnerability be skipped over by any of the broader divisions of damage (taken de)buffs, then it's effectively no more than physical. I.e., its damage that wouldn't then scale with Embolden (if Embolden's tooltip is accurate) but would scale with all other damage buffs in the game. Though, that just gets into the...

While not overly relevant, the damage types still exist and abilities still probably carry various damage type tags, they just don't do anything in most situations.

Which at least means they'd be retrievable if/where they remain.

That said, I see no examples of this on the battle log or anywhere else, outside of BLU's elements. Among player damage types, only physical and magical are still displayed at all. Evidence of the P/S/B damage types still existing, hidden, would be appreciated.

EDIT: ForsakenRoe later provides evidence of the tag still being baked in. See the next page.