All Damage Types and Elemental Weaknesses

Physical and Elemental Damage are the two main damage types in Dragon's Dogma 2 (DD2). Read on to find out more about damage types and learn what Elemental Weaknesses are!

All Damage Types

Physical Damage

Physical Damage are damage from attacks that are directly caused by melee or ranged weapons without any elemental infusions.

The total damage from Physical Damage will reflect depending on the Strength, Slash or Strike stats, and the enemy's physical defense.

Elemental Damage

Related Stats
Magick	Base stat of Magick attacks. Magick damage will scale based on this stat
All Elements
Fire	Inflict fire damage that can be amplified if the target is tarred, or reduced if the target is drenched.
Ice	Inflict ice damage that can slow and immobilize a target.
Lightning	Inflict lightning damage that can be amplified if the target is drenched. Can also make an enemy unconscious if continuously hit by lightning.
Holy	Inflict holy damage that is effective against undead enemies. Can only be used if you have The Exalted, Heaven's Key, Volant White, and Talarian White weapons.

There are only four elements in Dragon's Dogma 2, which are the Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Holy elements. Dark element is not available in DD2, unlike in the first game.

The damage from elemental attacks varies depending on your Magick stat, enemies' Debilitation, and their Magick defense.
All Stats Explained

What Are Damage Types?

Physical or Elemental Damage

Damage types are separated into two categories — Physical or Elemental. Physical Damage applies to attacks caused directly by your weapon, while Elemental Damage comes from spells or invocations and directly involves one of the elements in the game.

What Are Elemental Weaknesses?

Enemies that are Weak Against Certain Elements

Enemies have weaknesses and can be one of the elements in the game. You can exploit those weaknesses to inflict more damage, immobilize them, or cause a status effect for a short time.

Pawns will mention the enemies' weaknesses or whether someone in the party can exploit them, so keep your ears open for those callouts!

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