Damage Types

Damage Types

Physical

Error: Ability not found	Slashing is a common physical damage type, often used by both combat skill abilities and creatures. Sword and Knife Fighting have many abilities that deal Slashing damage. Canines, Felines, and Rodents tend to use Slashing attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Piercing is a common physical damage type, often used by both combat skill abilities and creatures. Archery, Staff, and Knife Fighting have abilities that deal Piercing damage. Humanoid species like Rakshasa, and some Dinosaurs tend to use Piercing attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Crushing is a common physical damage type, often used by both combat skill abilities and creatures. Staff, Hammer, Cow, and Unarmed have many abilities that deal Crushing damage. Canines, Giants, and Ruminants tend to deal Crushing damage.

Elemental

Error: Ability not found	Fire is a type of elemental damage commonly seen in combat skills, although some creatures posses Fire attacks. Fire Magic and Priest have abilities that deal Fire damage. Elementals,Crone-Kin, and humanoid mages tend to use Fire attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Cold is a type of elemental damage uncommonly seen in combat skills. Creatures in colder regions or dungeons are more likely to have Cold attacks. Ice Magic and Fire Magic have abilities that deal Cold damage. Fungoids and Elementals tend to use Cold attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Electricity is a type of elemental damage commonly seen in combat skills, and rarely seen in creatures. Hammer, Mentalism, Necromancy, and Warden have abilities that deal Electricity damage. Dinosaurs and Elementals sometimes use Electricity attacks.

Internal

Error: Ability not found	Trauma is a common internal damage type, often used by both combat skill abilities and creatures. Sword, Bard, and Psychology have abilities that deal Trauma damage. Plants and Arthropods tend to use Trauma attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Poison is a type of internal damage, more common to creature attacks than combat skill abilities. Battle Chemistry, Druid, and Knife Fighting have abilities that deal Poison damage. Aberrations, Arthropods, and Plants tend to use Poison attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Psychic is a type of internal damage, often used by both combat skill abilities and creatures across Alharth. Psychology, Priest, and Mentalism have abilities that deal Psychic damage. Arthropods tend to use Psychic attacks.

Other

Error: Ability not found	Acid is an unusual type of damage. Battle Chemistry has abilities that deal Acid damage. Fungoids, Arthropods, Fish and Snails, and Aberrations tend to use Acid attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Nature is a wild type of damage, tamed by only a few combat skills. Druid, Cow, and Giant Bat have abilities that deal Nature damage. Plants and Elementals tend to use Nature attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Darkness is an unusual type of damage rarely seen in the light of day. Necromancy has abilities that deal Darkness damage. Crone-Kins and Incorporeal Creatures tend to use Darkness attacks.
	Divine is not yet implemented in any attacks.
Error: Ability not found	Demonic is not yet implemented in any attacks.

Damage Types by Skill

The following table displays the damage types of each skill in Project Gorgon. Primary damage types are those that make up a bulk of the skill's damage, or are present on a large number of abilities. Other damage dealt by the skill's abilities is considered secondary. The primary and secondary labels are subjective. (TE) indicates the damage type is only accessible for that skill through a Treasure Effect. Last updated for v328.

Skill	Primary Damage Types	Secondary Damage Types
Animal Handling	Varies with pet(a)	Psychic
Archery	Piercing	Acid, Fire, Poison, Crushing
Bard	Nature	Trauma, Psychic
Battle Chemistry	Acid, Poison, Nature	Cold, Fire (TE), (b)
Cow	Crushing	Nature, Trauma (TE)
Deer	Crushing	Slashing, Psychic
Druid	Nature	Poison, Trauma, Crushing
Fire Magic	Fire	Cold, Crushing, Darkness (TE)
Giant Bat	Nature	Piercing, Slashing, Darkness, Trauma (TE)
Hammer	Crushing	Electricity
Ice Magic	Cold	Trauma, Electricity
Knife Fighting	Slashing, Piercing	Poison, Trauma
Lycanthropy	Crushing, Slashing	Trauma
Mentalism	Electricity	Psychic
Necromancy	Darkness, (c)	Electricity, Psychic (TE)
Pig	Crushing	Nature, Trauma
Priest	Psychic, Fire
Psychology	Psychic	Trauma
Rabbit	Slashing, Crushing	Pyschic, Trauma
Shield	Crushing	Fire
Spider	Crushing, Poison	Acid, Piercing
Staff	Crushing, Piercing	Slashing, Fire, Trauma
Sword	Slashing	Piercing, Trauma, (d)
Unarmed	Crushing	Trauma, Slashing, Fire (TE)
Warden	Electricity	Fire, Acid

(a): most common are Crushing, Slashing, and Poison
(b): does not include Golem damage
(c): does not include minion damage types
(d): can deal Nature damage to Undead only

Note that some items have implicit modifiers which can alter an ability's damage type. For example the

 

Flaming Gazluk Sword

causes several sword abilites to deal fire damage.