Damage Types

Tales of Maj'Eyal uses a multitude of damage types. Generally speaking, damage types are grouped along a few loose sets of types, some of which have secondary effects on damaging a mob. There are 12 main damage elements:

Common damage:

• Physical - Warriors, Rogues (white)
• Arcane - Mages (violet)
• Nature - Wilders (light green)
• Mind - Psionics (yellow)

Special damage:

• Darkness - Afflicted (dark grey)
• Light - Celestials (yellow)
• Temporal - Chronomancers (light grey)
• Blight - Defilers (khaki)

Elemental damage:

• Fire (red)
• Cold (dark blue)
• Lightning (light blue)
• Acid (dark green)

There are also several damage types (14?) that are special:

• Void - damage is half Temporal and half Darkness; may be referred to in some places in the game as Temporal Darkness, in dark grey text
• Shadowflame - damage is half Fire and half Darkness
• Dreamforge - damage is half Fire and half Mind
• Fire Burn - inflicts Fire damage and burns the target over multiple turns
• Lightburn -- like Fire burn, but with Light
• Ice - Cold damage and chance to Iceblock target
• Lightning Daze - inflict Lightning damage and has a chance to Daze
• Acid Blind - Acid damage and chance to Blind
• Blinding Light - Light damage and chance to Blind
• Slime - Nature damage and inflict a 15% Slow over multiple turns
• Poison - Nature damage over time
• Insidious Poison - Poison and reduces any healing of the target by at least 10% over several turns
• Corrupted Blood - inflicts Blight damage on the target, and may trigger a random lesser disease (Blight) debuff on the target
• Bleed - Physical damage plus additional damage over several turns. Usually five.
• Gloom - Deals no damage but might inflict gloom-effects (stun, slow, confusion).
• Draining Blight - inflicts Blight damage on the target, and restores half of the damage dealt as vim. The higher the target's rank, the more vim is recovered.
• Nature slow - nature plus slowing damage?
• Manaburn - if target has mana, vim, positive, or negative, removes some and deals proportional arcane damage. Won't reduce them below zero and does nothing if target has zero.

There may be more damage types you will encounter in the game - update this page asap!