Blunt Damage

Analysis

Blunt damage is one of the three types of physical damage. This damage usually corresponds to punches, kicks, or blows with blade-less weapons.

Weapon Types

The following weapons and their physical weapon skills deal blunt damage.

• Hand-to-Hand - Weapons such as the Cesti, Retaliators, and [Faith Baghnakhs]]
• Staves - Weapons such as the Gelong Staff, Wind Staff, and Kinkobo
• Clubs - Weapons such as the Brass Rod, Blessed Hammer, and Kraken Club

Pets and Pet Abilities

• Avatar melee attacks deal blunt damage. In addition, the following bloodpacts deal blunt damage.
  • Diabolos - Camisado
  • Fenrir - Moonlit Charge
  • Leviathan Tail Whip
  • Ramuh - Shock Strike, Chaotic Strike
  • Shiva - Axe Kick, Rush
  • Titan - Rock Throw, Rock Buster, Megalith Throw, Mountain Buster
• Dragoon wyverns deal blunt physical damage with their melee attacks.

*Automatons equipped with the Harlequin Frame or Stormwaker Frame deal blunt damage with their physical attacks.

Exceptions

• Vampiric Claws - Melee attacks deal slashing damage.
  • Physical weaponskills performed using the Vampiric Claws will still deal blunt damage.

• Birdbanes - Melee attacks deal piercing damage.
  • Physical weaponskills performed using the Birdbanes will still deal blunt damage.

Mob Family Damage Relation

Weak to Blunt

• Corses
• Magic Pots
• Skeletons

Strong to Blunt

• Doomed
• Elementals
• Flans
• Ghosts
• Greater Birds
• Hecteyes
• Leeches
• Mimics
• Slimes

Immune to Blunt

• Metalloid Amoeba - Appears on the 1st floor of Southeast Apollyon
• Ghost Clot - Appears on the 1st floor of Southeast Apollyon
• Jailer of Temperance - Immune to blunt damage when its bars or when its rings are out.
• Energetic Eruca - Immune to slashing and blunt damage. However, due to being a sub-class of blunt damage, it is not immune to hand-to-hand damage.

Special Notes

• When used on Undead type mobs, the White Magic spell Banish reduces the damage resistance for melee attacks.
• The Warrior merit job ability Tomahawk will temporarily reduce all forms of damage resistance that a mob possesses.