This poll used to have a title “What damage type is most powerful?” but as was rightly pointed out there’s no such thing as ‘most powerful.’ There are too many ways to interpret ‘power’ in this game. Instead, what damage type do you think produces builds that in your opinion are most powerful or most fun to play or whatever else might be the reason for choosing it as your favorite.
Tri-elemental was not included due to the limit of poll options. If that is your favorite damage type, please choose one of the elements and feel free to add a comment below. Also, if you lean towards one of the DoTs please choose the corresponding direct damage type. Thanks for reading and in participating
There’s a lot that goes into this. Gear, Devotions, Conversion, and of course Classes + Skills.
My top 3 would be Physical, Cold, and Vitality. Physical has insane conversion support (thanks, beronath) plus soldier is a solid class. Cold has some decent conversion (acid, pierce -> cold) plus some great skills to back it up, as well as good RR in devotions due to it being an elemental type. Vitality has the best damage-type-specific tier 3 devo because it has life leech RR, and gains more benefit from Dying God, but I think gear holds it back.
Since I have to choose one, I’ll choose Cold since it’s almost winter
Also, put the last four damage types in order :furious::furious::furious:
Edit: oof it changed from most powerful to favorite. Physical, I just love Beronath sword. Although chaos is a close second because I like Occultist and because it has some spicy devotion setups.
Imo, there is none. We could point out the weak damage types, so pierce and chaos (since they don’t get much love, although I think we could take away chaos from the weakest), but there is not any damage type that is super good. We could say physical is the strongest, because there’s not much armor or physical resist in enemies’ (only the super strong enemies have a high amount, like Mogdrogen or Ravager), but in the end you still get the same damage values as with other (but not pierce, only certain builds do) damage types.
If this would be “which damage type is most loved” then yeah, we could talk about that.
Whoa… Pierce? Pierce would be my second pick right after aether. Reason: outside two or three nemeses enemy pierce res is 10% by default. One could argue the same for physical but armor does exist and armor shred doesn’t.
BTW you’re right later on. I should’ve named it “most loved” instead of most powerful. I hoped the sentence about ‘power’ being a subjective category would do the trick…
Oh thanks, that would be great. Please, drop elemental. I’ll edit OP accordingly. Also, if you could change the title to: “What’s your FAVORITE damage type?”
Well the title says “Favorite” but the post specifies power. You could talk about the title
IMO:
Favorites:
Cold - I’d always pick water in Pokemon. Cold is always the closest so I go for that. It makes me think I’m going against those people from my childhood who always pick fire
Fire -Just for this game I really like Fire. So much support. I love damage types that can easily become competitive with many options.
Bleed - Blood. Nuff said.
Strongest:
This part is and will always be depending on class and item support. Look at belgo. Both BM and Infiltrator can be considered top tier. But seriously, outside that pierce sucks bigtime. Shit item support outside belgo, shit devotion setup. Same with Chaos and Darkblaze. On the other hand, physical/trauma is strongest on paper, but physical lacks that borderline OP set/class that makes it shine. We have Octavius for Trauma, but it chose to support Forcewave instead of Blade Arc. Had it been Blade Arc, Trauma builds would be the subject of daily nerf complaints. Anyways, my list:
Fire - I mentioned this above. So much support. Fire may not have a skill like Rune or Devastation, but the devotion tree, the amount of viable skills, the amount of sets, playstyles easily makes fire have a good amount of varied top-mid tier builds: DW FS ranged/melee, 2h FS ranged/melee, BWC, Devastation sorc, Doom Bolt Deceiver, conversion runes Purifier, Forcewave Mando/Tactician and more.
Aether - This wouldn’t have made my list if only Binder was the good aether class, but DK, Battlemage (with Krieg), Apostate, even Mage Hunter are also great. Also Clairvoyant set is bonkers, making Purifier (yes, aether Purifier) and even Defiler work.
Don’t have a clear candidate for 3rd place but maybe cold just because Rune.
I can’t really decide actually. I have a crush on Poison/Acid but at the same time other Damage types like Aether are way more effective in most scenarios, even when I’m up against Aether-themed Bosses. I also love Elemental Infiltrators and Pierce Infiltrators… it’s hard. I’ll go with Aether but Poison/Acid but my heart votes for Poison/Acid, too.
there’s no difference between all the damage type except the colour is different,or how hard to stack the resistence reduction,or how hard to stack the %damage , none of them is my favourite to be honest
