The Magic Affinity adds Magic attack to a weapon, which scales on Intelligence.

The Quality Affinity adds Strength and Dexterity scaling to a weapon, but to a lesser degree than Heavy or Keen alone (two-handing is less effective than Heavy but more so than Keen as well).

The Keen Affinity adds Dexterity scaling to a weapon, which benefits from wielding a weapon one-handed.

The Heavy Affinity adds Strength scaling to a weapon, which benefits from two-handing a weapon (50% more damage).

Buffs and debuffs to damage negation and attack rating stack multiplicatively.

All attacks are comprised of one or more of the original eight damage types ( Standard, Strike, Slash, Pierce, Magic, Fire, Lightning, Holy).This is not a separate type of damage, just a damage increase by some weapons on certain enemies.Īdditional Notes about Damage Types in Elden Ring Some enemies belong in categories (Undead, Gravity, Dragon- and Ancient Dragon), which may recieve extra damage from certain weapons. See Special Weaknesses for weapons that deal extra damage to certain enemies.See Affinities for a comparison of each affinity's effects and their respective whetblades.See Equipment with Special Effects for special stat-increasing or effect-granting weapons and armor.See Buffs & Debuffs for useful information regarding the stacking or overwriting of effects on your character.

See Status Effects for all status buildups and other effects applied to your character.Move Used (Light, Heavy, Critical, etc).Many other factors affect damage calculation. Because defense is subtracted from each damage component, total damage from weapons with two or three damage types is often reduced more than total damage from one type. When multiple types of damage are dealt, total damage is the sum of damage from all types. This calculation applies for each type of an attack's damage. The basic damage calculation is (attack rating - defense) * negation. Players and enemies can also inflict abnormal status effects which can deal or modify damage. Damage Type is affected by many factors, including your equipment, skills and temporary buffs. Damage is divided into two major groups: Physical and Elemental. please make sure you have the PREVIOUS patch ('Patch 2.1' it's called on your shelf) downloaded and installed and then download and install 'Patch 2.Damage Type in Elden Ring is an important mechanic pertaining to Combat. Now, in order to avoid any hassle or errors. We just uploaded patch 2.2 on your account that should resolve this 'characters cannot use spells' issue. The action still comes up in the battle log, but doesn't continue after that.ĭammit I have a couple of days off and was looking forward to sinking in some hours into this, guess i'll have to wait but looking at the main site forums, their seems to be no-one else with this problem. You can move the mouse, press escape etc but cannot access the action wheel and the game just doesn't advance. Tries using thunderbolt with the lost man In the tutorial section and it does the same as when you cast the flame thingy with Zuburan soft freeze. Seems buffing spells work fine, but any offensive spell doesn't. Uutarn: Again, glad im not the only one as I done a search on other sites and couldn't find anyone else with the problem.

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