General way to tell magic from physical damage? (Dark Mind)

[RLofOBFL]

As for mitigation. Usually DRK stacks The Blackest Night with any CD they use. NEVER use dark mind alone, always pair it with something else, and in most cases dont even think about Dark Arts Dark Mind, I wouldn't ever touch that unless you're doing some insane mitigation such as surviving both of Exdeaths Thunder IIIs(though normally youd never do this, it's pretty fun to try)

[RLofOBFL]

I didn't mean it as an absolute. I worded it poorly. 9.8 times out of 10 it is exactly how it appears. I do remember being surprised when raw intuition worked on it though.

[aqskerorokero]

being hit then try again......you can't be an ok tank if you don't have ptsd....

[Sylvain]

The best would be to have a revamped combat text (like the wow add-ons plz T_T) with 2 different colors for physical / magical damage taken.

You can look at the combat text altough I highly recommande you make a special tab with only the damage YOU take and nothing else. Then you can easily check.
Finally as many people have said, you can look at the animation but it's it always clear and there are some elemental effect that can't be weaken (holy and dark for instance) by skills like reprisal (I think that's the skill name I'm not sure)

[HaelseMikiro]

Just have a WAR pop Raw Intuition to test something. It's much easier to see "-20% (Parry)" floating text, than it is to try and do the math with Dark Mind. Sometimes bosses use tank busters of both types too. God Kefka uses magical (Hyperdrive) and physical (Ultimate Embrace) busters.

[Sove92]

Battle log.

Begins casting / casts = Magic
Readies / uses = Physical

Auto attacks don't give you this information though. It also doesn't apply to darkness damage.

[AncientCrystal]

The best would be to have a revamped combat text (like the wow add-ons plz T_T) with 2 different colors for physical / magical damage taken.

You can look at the combat text altough I highly recommande you make a special tab with only the damage YOU take and nothing else. Then you can easily check.
Finally as many people have said, you can look at the animation but it's it always clear and there are some elemental effect that can't be weaken (holy and dark for instance) by skills like reprisal (I think that's the skill name I'm not sure)

Battle log.

Begins casting / casts = Magic
Readies / uses = Physical

Auto attacks don't give you this information though. It also doesn't apply to darkness damage.

This helps a lot! thx. But I play on PS4, there a a way to make another text box for combat log?

[MagiusNecros]

You don't. They really should color code it. Or something. But they won't.

Or just change Dark Mind into flat DMG reduction.

PLD's used to not block magic but now they do anyway so it's whatever.

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Darkness damage amuses me. It exists but DRK's can't throw out Darkness type dmg. Baffling.