Damage
Revision as of 02:14, 28 February 2009 by imported>Weatherby Goode (Added the other special types. To the best of my knowledge, the list is now comprehensive.)
Term
Damage The occurrence of a change for the worse.
- A value, in Hit Points, that directly reduces the Hit Point total of a target.
Varieties of damage:
- Smashing
- Blunt force attacks. Typified by Brawl and other body-part attacks (kicks, punches, etc).
- Example(s): Super Strength, War Mace
- Lethal
- Piercing or cutting attacks. Typified by many weapon based attacks.
- Example(s): Broad Sword, Archery
- Fire
- An attack employing radical increase of temperature. Often associated with damage-over-time effects.
- Example(s): Fire Blast, Fire Control
- Cold
- An attack employing radical decrease in temperature. Often associated with slowing of attack and/or movement rate.
- Example(s): Ice Blast, Ice Control
- Energy
- An attack utilizing raw energy or an energy transfer. Often associated with either knockback/Knockdown, Endurance Drain or Sleep effects.
- Example(s): Electric Melee, Energy Blast
- Negative Energy
- An attack of anti-energy, often drawn from the netherworld. Powersets that deliver Negative Energy are often termed 'Dark'. Often associated with reduced Accuracy.
- Example(s): Dark Blast, Dark Melee
- Psionic
- An attack upon the mind. Characterized by the typical weakness of the attack, but the almost complete absence of defenses against it, as well as with slowing of attack.
- Example(s): Psychic Blast, Mental Manipulation
- Toxic
- Poisonous attacks. The nature of toxins may be either biological or chemical. Toxic damage is unique in the respect that the game mechanics do not allow for any form of defense, so mitigation for toxic attacks is based on resistance to toxic damage or defense versus the melee/ranged/AoE nature of the attack. Often coupled with lethal damage.
- Example(s): Spines, Thorny Assault
- Electrolytic
- Unique to Hamidon. These attacks can not be evaded and may only be resisted through use of Essence of the Earth inspirations.
- Example(s): Hamidon, Mitochondria
- Prismatic
- Unique to the Crystal Titan. These attacks can only be resisted through the use of Ambrosia inspirations.
- Quantum
- Used by Void Hunters and Quantum class enemies. These attacks dealt a great deal of un-resistible damage to Kheldians. It was replaced with normal Negative damage in the February 12, 2008 patch.
- Unique2
- This is the special Radiation damage dealt by the Terra Volta Reactor Core. It can only be resisted by the Radiation Shield buff.