Quote Originally Posted by ADVSS View Post
If the "information" wasn't there to tell whether you got hit by physical or magical damage, then physical/magical cooldowns are either text flavored, or they work specifically and its not true, and/or they dont work at all and theyre just there as fluff skills on tanks
Forth option all damage calculations are done server side so that the server knows which actions are physical/magical/shadow and applies all appropriate buffs and debuffs but never sends our clients that actual information. The only reason we know various actions deal various damage types is due to seeing how various buffs and debuffs change the damage displayed over multiple occurrences of that action.

It is not that physical and magical damage do not exist; it is that information on the damage type of actions is not sent client side.