Slashing Damage

Analysis

Slashing damage is one of the three types of physical damage. This damage usually corresponds to a slicing or swiping animation.

Weapon Types

The following weapon types and their physical weaponskills deal slashing damage.

• Swords - Weapons such as the Onion Sword, Ifrit's Blade, and Ridill.
• Scythes - Weapons such as the Bronze Zaghnal, Barbarian's Scythe, and Apocalypse.
• Great Axes - Weapons such as the Butterfly Axe, Kheten, and Bravura.
• Axes - Weapons such as the Bronze Axe, Viking Axe, and Maneater.
• Great Katana - Weapons such as the Kotetsu, Amakura, and Hagun.
• Katana - Weapons such as the Kunai, Sai, and Perdu Blade.
• Great Swords - Weapons such as the Chaosbringer, Zweihander, and Algol.

Pets and Pet Abilities

• Fenrir - Eclipse Bite
• Garuda - Claw, Predator Claws
• Leviathan - Barracuda Dive, Spinning Dive

*Automatons equipped with the Valoredge Frame deal slashing damage with their physical attacks.

Exceptions

• Crude Blade - Melee attacks deal blunt damage.
  • Physical weaponskills using the Crude Blade still deal slashing damage.

• Honebami - Melee attacks deal blunt damage.
  • Physical weaponskills using the Honebami still deal slashing damage.

• Melee attacks using swords of the Rapier type (i.e. Fleuret and Joyeuse) deal piercing damage.
  • Physical weaponskills using these sword types still deal slashing damage.

• Weaponskills performed with the Murasamemaru Great Katana.

Mob Family Damage Relation

Weak to Slashing

• Doomed
• Hounds

Resistant to Slashing

• Elementals
• Flans
• Ghosts
• Greater Birds
• Mimics
• Skeletons
• Slimes

Immune to Slashing

• Adamantshell - Appears on the 2nd floor of Southeast Apollyon
• Tieholtsodi - Appears on the 2nd floor of Southeast Apollyon
• Jailer of Temperance - Immune to slashing damage when it is closed up or when its bars 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.