What's the point of Physical and Magic Damage Types

[Hasrat]

Circle of Scorn has your PLD slam their sword into the ground causes beams of blue energy to erupt from the earth damaging all enemys and causing them to suffer a DOT. One would naturally assume it's a spell, right?

But it's not a spell, it's an ability. Is this physical or magical? You tell me. Because the game sure as hell doesn't and I sure as hell don't know if my physical dmg buff has any impact on it.

Circle of Scorn tooltip: "Delivers an attack..."

Compare with

Holy Spirit tooltip: "Deals unaspected damage..."

The former is physical, the latter is magical.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Circle of Scorn tooltip: "Delivers an attack..."

Compare with

Holy Spirit tooltip: "Deals unaspected damage..."

The former is physical, the latter is magical.

Goligee why would an ability that visibly looks like magic do physical damage? Proved my point.

And "delivers an attack' could be interpretted as "magical attack". Why the hell do they not just clearly label abilities as "Physical" or "magical"? Jesus Christ.

[Rolder50]

Goligee why would an ability that visibly looks like magic do physical damage? Proved my point.

And "delivers an attack' could be interpretted as "magical attack". Why the hell do they not just clearly label abilities as "Physical" or "magical"? Jesus Christ.

Or even simpler, have the popup numbers for physical damage be one color, and magic a different color. Boom problem solved, even if tooltips could still use some work

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Goligee why would an ability that visibly looks like magic do physical damage? Proved my point.

And "delivers an attack' could be interpretted as "magical attack". Why the hell do they not just clearly label abilities as "Physical" or "magical"? Jesus Christ.

It's almost like reading things in the context of how the rest of the skills are written matters here.


All magic damage is aspected or unaspected, while all physical damage is neither.


And again, it doesn't matter in the context of player damage outside bozja.

Or even simpler, have the popup numbers for physical damage be one color, and magic a different color. Boom problem solved, even if tooltips could still use some work

This would be nice for damage to players, I would definitely like knowing what incoming damage is.