Blunt

Different attacks do different types of damage, and different enemies may be resistant or particularly vulnerable to certain damage types. The basic types are:

Damage Type	Weapon Types
Blunt	Hand-to-Hand, Club, Staff, Harlequin Frame, Stormwaker Frame
Slashing	Axe, Great Axe, Great Sword, Sword, Scythe, Katana, Great Katana, Valoredge Frame
Piercing	Dagger, Polearm, Archery, Marksmanship, Shuriken, Sharpshot Frame

Exceptions

Some weapons have a different damage type than usual for their category.

• Rapier and Epee-type Swords do Piercing damage. Some examples: Joyeuse, Degen, Fleuret.
  • Bilbo-type Swords such as the Tuck use the same model as Rapiers but do Slashing damage.
• The Bourdonasse Polearm does Blunt damage.
• The Crude Sword Great Sword does Blunt damage.
• The Honebami Great Katana does Blunt damage.
• The Chiroptera Dagger Dagger does Slashing damage.
• The Vampiric Claws Hand-to-Hand weapon does Slashing damage.
• When using the Monk Job Ability "Formless Strikes", the damage type of melee strikes and kick attacks is nonphysical, nonelemental. This damage will not be subject to any of the damage-type specific bonuses or penalties below.

Despite having an uncharacteristic damage type when meleeing, these exceptions still use normal damage types during weapon skills. For example, when performing a weapon skill with Vampiric Claws or while using Formless Strikes and any Hand-to-Hand weapon, the damage type is Blunt.

Damage Type Modifiers by Monster Family

Family	H2H (Blunt)	Impact (Blunt)	Slashing	Piercing
Bees				1.25
Bat Triplets				1.25
Rocs		0.75	0.75	1.25
Birds				1.25
Colibri				1.25
Corses*	1.125	1.25		0.75
Doomed*	0.875	0.875	1.125	1
Elementals	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25
Flans (Normal Mode)	.75	.75	.875	1
Flans (Spiked Mode)	.25	.25	.375	.5
Flies				1.25
Ghosts*	0.5	0.5	0.75	0.75
Giant Bats				1.25
Hecteyes	0.75	0.75
Hounds			1.125
Imps				1.125
Leeches	0.75	0.75
Magic Pots	1.25	1.5
Mandragoras				1.25
Mimics	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
Puks				1.25
Skeletons*	1.125	1.25	0.875	0.50
Slimes	0.25	0.25	0.50	0.50

• Where not otherwised specified, the damage modifier is understood to be 1.0
• Reduced modifiers for undead monsters (marked above with *) will be raised to 1.0 for a short time if the monster takes damage from a Banish spell.
• Source: Vanad'iel Monsters (Japanese)

Avatar damage types

Avatars all do Blunt damage with their normal melee attacks.

The physical blood pacts, however, do 4 different types of damage:

Carbuncle Blood Pact Damage Type Poison Nails Piercing	Ifrit Blood Pact Damage Type Punch H2H Burning Strike H2H Double Punch H2H Flaming Crush H2H	Titan Blood Pact Damage Type Rock Throw Ranged Rock Buster Impact Megalith Throw Ranged Mountain Buster Impact	Leviathan Blood Pact Damage Type Barracuda Dive Slashing Tail Whip Impact Spinning Dive Slashing
Garuda Blood Pact Damage Type Claw Piercing Predator Claws Slashing	Shiva Blood Pact Damage Type Axe Kick H2H Double Slap H2H Rush H2H	Ramuh Blood Pact Damage Type Shock Strike Impact Chaotic Strike Impact	Fenrir Blood Pact Damage Type Moonlit Charge Impact Crescent Fang Piercing Eclipse Bite Slashing
Diabolos Blood Pact Damage Type Camisado Blunt (H2H or Impact?)

• This means Ramuh would hit just as hard as Titan on pots (assuming he connected all 3 attacks)
• Diabolos' Somnolence and Nether Blast Blood Pact's have a longer range than other offensive magical blood pacts and deal non-elemental damage.
• Somnolence deals damage with an additional effect of Gravity.
• Nether Blast goes through shadows, Perfect Dodge and Invincible, it also deals extremely consistant 100%(?) accurate damage.
• Nether Blast may be more accurately classified as magical damage.

Physical Blue Magic damage types

Physical Blue Magic takes on Damage Types as well. Below is the list:

Blunt Power Attack Sprout Smack Head Butt Helldive Bludgeon Grand Slam Jet Stream Uppercut Terror Touch Sickle Slash Dimensional Death Body Slam Frenetic Rip Frypan Hydro Shot Tail Slap Hysteric Barrage Cannonball Ram Charge

Piercing Wild Oats Queasyshroom Feather Storm Screwdriver Pinecone Bomb Disseverment

Slashing Foot Kick Battle Dance Claw Cyclone Smite of Rage Mandibular Bite Death Scissors Spinal Cleave Vertical Cleave

• Source: The Forbidden Art of The Immortals @ Allakhazam