Sacred 2:Damage Types

There are five elements used which involve damage:

Physical

Fire

Ice

Magic

Poison

Damage is calculated separately for each damage type. It is important to understand resistances and how they are applied to damage. Each weapon or spell that inflicts injury delivers some combination of these five damage types; perhaps all physical, perhaps half fire and half magic. In the discussion below, any reference to damage applies to any or all of the types separately. For example, physical damage and poison damage are each calculated using their respective damage and resistance values, then once computed, the two types are added to arrive at the final figure.

All socketable elemental damage types have their own element which must be socketed as well as a corresponding detrimental effect:

	Chunk of Lava (fire)
	Converts a percentage of physical damage into fire damage. ( Damage Over Time)
	Poison Fang (poison)
	Converts a percentage of physical damage into poison damage. ( Damage Over Time)
	Magic Pearl (magic)
	Converts a percentage of physical damage into magic damage. ( Weaken)
	Ice Crystal
	Converts a percentage of physical damage into ice damage. ( Slow)

Weapons can be socketed with elements that will change a part of the damage type that is already native to the weapon. Almost all weapons start with Physical as a damage type. The above elements will convert a percentage of the original weapon damage (usually from Physical) into the new, chosen element. For example, if a player wanted to enhance fire damage, he would socket one or more "Chunk of Lava" into their chosen gear and that would give them ~30-50% of the previous damage now as fire damage instead of Physical. The more elemental damage a player can produce, the better the chance of applying the relevant Detrimental Effects as well as being able to target a monster's weakest resistances.

Damage types when socketed change the appearance of the weapon and will imbue it with glows depending on the type of element socketed as well as extra animated effects. A weapon with no element socketed within it will have no extra color or animation unless it is a unique or legendary. It is possible to tell what kind of damage type a weapon has by checking it's color and animation. Damage types on weapons can be a mix of many of the elements. The highest element damage type on the weapon is what will "win" and give the weapon it's color and effect.

As well, all monsters may and usually do have weaknesses against specific damage types. Having the correct damage type versus an enemy's weakest resistance towards that damage type can result in a significant increase in damage as well as increasing the chance to inflict it's correlating detrimental effect.