Damage

Damage Dealt

Overview

Damage is based on 4 things:

• Base Effective Attack
• Weapon Effective Attack
  • Effective Attack is calculated differently based on the weapon:
    • Striking Weapons: ATK
    • Ranged Weapons: ATK/4 + ACC
    • TEC Ranged Weapons: (TEC + ACC)/2
    • Technic Weapons: TEC
• Elemental Correction
  • When using a non-neutral weapon against an enemy of the opposite element, damage is increased.
  • When using a non-neutral weapon against an enemy of the same element, damage is reduced.
  • Element correspondance:
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• Enemy Defense
• Other Multipliers
  • Chain Damage Multiplier
  • Photon Art/Charge Shot Multiplier

Striking Weapons

Damage = (Base ATK + (Weapon ATK * Elemental Correction) - Enemy Defense)/5 * Multipliers

Ranged Weapons

Damage = (Base ACC + Base ATK/4 + ((Weapon ACC + Weapon ACC/4) * Elemental Correction) - Enemy Defense)/5 * Multipliers

TEC Ranged Weapons

Damage = (Base TEC/2 + Base ACC/2 + ((Weapon TEC/2 + Weapon ACC/2) * Elemental Correction) - Enemy Defense)/5 * Multipliers

TECHNIC Weapons

Damage = (Base TEC + (Weapon TEC * Elemental Correction) - Enemy Defense)/5 * Multipliers

Elemental Correction

Elemental Correction = 100% +- (30% + Weapon % + Other corrections)

The Elemental Correction Bonus is applied to the effective ATK of the weapon.

• Elemental Correction only applies when using a weapon against an enemy of either the opposite element or the same element of the weapon.
  • Positive if the opposite element, negative if the same element.
• A neutral non-TECHNIC weapon does not gain any elemental corrections
• A TECHNIC weapon checks the element using the element of the TECHNIC used:
  • The % of the TECHNIC weapon is only applied if the element of the TECHNIC is the same as the weapon.
  • Using a neutral rod to cast Foie on an Ice Enemy will gain 30% Elemental Correction.
  • Using a Fire 20% rod to cast Zonde on an Ice Enemy will gain 0% Elemental Correction.
  • Using a Fire 20% rod to cast Foie on an Ice Enemy will gain 50% Elemental Correction.
• A TECHNIC weapon also gains 5% Elemental Correction for each TECHNIC linked of the same element.
• Some weapons inherently adds Elemental Correction, such as Holy Sword Elsydeon.
• Using an Elemental Bullet on a ranged weapon adds Elemental Correction based on the Bullet's level (15% from Lv1 to Lv10, 20% from Lv11 to Lv20, 25% from Lv21).
  • The Longbow's Elemental Bullets adds an extra 5% compared to other Elemental Bullets (20%, 25%, 30% respectively).

Damage Multipliers

Damage Multipliers can come from a variety of sources. These multipliers are directly applied onto the final damage, and multiple multipliers are multiplied.

Chain Multiplier

When attacking using the button (Attack for Striking weapons, Bullets for Ranged Weapons, and Technics linked to for TECHNIC weapons), it builds chains on the enemy equal to the amount of hits you have done to it.

When attacking using the button (Photon Art Skills, Charge Shots, and Technics linked to ), and the chains on the enemy is above 1, the attack gains a multiplier based on the chain number. Any attack from gains that multiplier until the chain disappears from the enemy.

Multiplier calculation (story mode): 200% + 12.5% * (Chain Number -1)

Multiplier calculation (multi mode): 200% + 7.5% * (Chain Number -1)

Perfect Attack

Striking Weapons, when attacking, has a small circle that gradualy shrinks on the bottom right corner at the commands. By pressing the attack button when the circle is the same size as the circle on the command, a Perfect Attack is performed. A successfully executed Just Attack adds 25% to the total damage and counts as a critical hit.

• A Perfect Attack must be the second or later attack in a series of attacks.
• The timing of a Perfect Attack differs from weapon category to weapon category, and is affected by attack speed or hitlag.
• It's possible to execute a Perfect Attack using a Photon Art Skill from a normal attack.
• It's possible to execute a Perfect Attack on the 2nd or later stages of a Photon Art Skill.
  • A Photon Art without a 2nd stage can't chain into another Perfect Attack.

Other Multipliers

• The Power Multiplier of Photon Arts/Charge Shots
• Various Type Abilities
• HP Affects Power ability of Weapons