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

[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.

[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.

[Lambdafish]

You can almost always tell. If it's magical looking then it's magic. Byakko, Shinryu, Lakshmi, O1, 2, 3 adds, 4, 5, 6, and 8 all have magic tankbusters. And for autos or mobs you can just tell if it's shooting magic at you(orbs, fire, etc).

Its going back a bit, but Holiest of Holy from Thordan Ex is physical damage... I'm not saying you are wrong as of right now, but it might not always be the case.

[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?

[Capn_Goggles]

It's there way of making it stand out from other tanks

Dark Knight being the designated magic tank was an idea that started and died with the introduction of Stormblood the minute they made PLD an omnitank rather than the designated physical tank. They killed every other sacred cow with tanking with 4.0 with the exception of Dark Mind, and I think that one should be next on the chopping block for DRK's hopeful revamp.