Damage Type Modifier

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All health, armor, and shield classes have damage type modifiers that modify how much damage is inflicted by a particular damage type. Sources of damage type modifiers stack multiplicatively with each other and may be referred to as resistances, vulnerabilities (not to be confused with sources of damage vulnerability), or damage reduction in-game.

Mechanics[]

For a more in-depth explanation, see Damage#Damage Calculation.

External buffs and debuffs (from mods or other sources) can change these modifiers down to a minimum of -100% and up to a maximum of +100% (0x and 2x damage multipliers respectively). Armor classes are not affected by these effects, thus they will always have their initial damage type modifiers.

Note that damage type modifiers are independent of sources of Damage Reduction and Damage Vulnerability.

Health and Shields[]

Cloned Flesh
Impact	—
Puncture	—
Slash	—
Cold	—
Electricity	—
Heat	—
Toxin	—
Blast	—
Corrosive	—
Gas	—
Magnetic	—
Radiation	—
Viral	—
True	—
Void	—
Tau	—

Every health and shield class has a set of damage modifiers that modify the multiplier in which damage is dealt. For example, a +75% modifier to  Viral damage done to Cloned Flesh means that incoming  Viral damage will deal 1.75x more damage to that particular health class. Conversely, a -50% modifier will cause inflicted damage to deal 0.5x of its initial value.

Damage type modifiers of health and shield classes can also be expressed in terms of vulnerabilities or resistances. In the above example, Cloned Flesh has a -75% resistance to  Viral and is 50% more resistant to  Gas damage. Alternatively, Cloned Flesh has a +75% vulnerability to  Viral and is 50% less vulnerable to  Gas damage.

Armor[]

Main article: Armor

Infested Sinew
Impact	—
Puncture	—
Slash	—
Cold	—
Electricity	—
Heat	—
Toxin	—
Blast	—
Corrosive	—
Gas	—
Magnetic	—
Radiation	—
Viral	—
True	—
Void	—
Tau	—

Alloy Armor
Impact	—
Puncture	—
Slash	—
Cold	—
Electricity	—
Heat	—
Toxin	—
Blast	—
Corrosive	—
Gas	—
Magnetic	—
Radiation	—
Viral	—
True	—
Void	—
Tau	—

Ferrite Armor
Impact	—
Puncture	—
Slash	—
Cold	—
Electricity	—
Heat	—
Toxin	—
Blast	—
Corrosive	—
Gas	—
Magnetic	—
Radiation	—
Viral	—
True	—
Void	—
Tau	—

Because armor does not have explicit hit points unlike health and shields, damage type modifiers interact with damage against armored health differently. The resultant damage multiplier will depend on both the amount of armor the target has, the damage type modifiers of its health class, and the damage type modifiers of its armor class:

${\displaystyle { \text{Resultant Damage Multiplier} = \frac{300}{300 + \text{AR}(1 - AM)}(1 + AM)(1 + HM) } }$

AM is the damage modifier against the armor class, HM is the damage modifier against the health class, and AR is the target's armor after all reductions from debuffs (e.g.  Corrosive Projection,  Corrosive procs,  Terrify, etc.).

Damage type modifiers of armor classes have a two-fold effect:

• Mitigate or enhance a percentage of the target's armor (represented by AR(1 - AM) in the above equation)
• Increase or decrease the damage dealt in the same way as a type modifier against the hit points would do (represented by (1 + AM))

Sources of Damage Type Resistance[]

Abilities

Versatile and resilient,  Caliban and allies within his Affinity Range gain Adaptive Armor that builds damage resistance against the highest damage type received from enemy attacks, stacking 5% per hit up to a cap of 50%. If Caliban or his allies do not receive damage for 5 seconds, their Adaptive Armor loses 2% per second until fully removed.

• Passive bonus value is displayed as a Buff icon beside Caliban's hitpoint indicators.
  •  Impact,  Puncture,  Slash,  Cold,  Electricity,  Heat,  Toxin,  Blast,  Corrosive,  Magnetic,  Radiation,  Viral, and  Tau damage types stack their respective resistances separately, and will have different icons in the status bar.
• Damage over time from procs (such as  Slash or  Toxin for example) will not contribute nor maintain damage resistance.
• Adaptive Armor does not stack with  Adaptation. The damage reduction provided to Caliban (or his allies) equipped with Adaptation will be the higher of the two values.

Mods

 Adaptation
(up to -90% modifier for taken damage)

 Aerodynamic
(-24% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Antitoxin
(-45% damage type modifier for  Toxin damage)

 Agility Drift
(-12% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Aviator
(-40% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Boreal's Anguish Boreal Mod Set Bonus
(-20% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Boreal's Contempt Boreal Mod Set Bonus
(-20% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Boreal's Hatred Boreal Mod Set Bonus
(-20% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Diamond Skin
(-45% modifier for  Radiation damage)

 Flame Repellent
(-60% damage type modifier for  Heat damage)

 Ironclad Flight
(-40% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Insulation
(-60% damage type modifier for  Cold damage)

 Lightning Rod
(-60% damage type modifier for  Electricity damage)

 Necramech Aviator
(-40% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Shock Absorbers
(-20% damage type modifier for  Impact,  Puncture, and  Slash damage)

 Toxin Resistance
(-15% damage type modifier for  Toxin damage)

 Umbral Fiber
(-11% damage type modifier for  Tau damage)

 Umbral Intensify
(-11% damage type modifier for  Tau damage)

 Umbral Vitality
(-11% damage type modifier for  Tau damage)

 Orgone Tuning Matrix
(-15% damage type modifier for  Cold,  Electricity,  Heat, and  Toxin damage)

 Anti-Flak Plating
(-20% damage type modifier for  Blast damage. Only useable in Conclave)

Others

Tenno Shield
(-50% damage type modifier for all damage types)

 Innodem's Incarnon Resilience buff on finishers (-10% damage type modifier for all damage types, stacks multiplicatively 4 times)

Enemies

Guardian Eximus aura (-90% damage type modifier for all damage types)

Grineer Prosecutor aura (Sets damage type modifier for physical and primary elemental damage types to -100%. -85% damage type modifier for combined elemental damage types)

Toxic Ancient aura (-80% damage type modifier for  Toxin damage)

Sources of Damage Type Fragility[]

Abilities

• Atlas
• Qorvex

	3 75	Petrify Atlas' hardened gaze will fossilize foes, heal Rumblers, and create Petrified Bulwarks. When shattered, petrified enemies drop healing Rubble for Atlas. Introduced in Update 17.5 (2015-10-01)	Strength:100% (Rumbler heal)
			Duration:5 / 10 / 15 / 20 s
			Range:10 / 11 / 12 / 14 m (cone length)
			Misc: 60° (FOV) +50% (damage type modifier) 1 (Rubble dropped per enemy)
			Subsumable to Helminth

Other

 Magus Accelerant

 Magus Destruct

 Theorem Contagion

Grineer Prosecutor aura (Sets allied units damage type modifier of the corresponding element to +100%)

Sources of Modifier Type Changes[]

These are relevant in changing the health class of Vulpaphyla and Predasite Companions.

Adra Mutagen (Proto Shield)

Elsa Mutagen (Alloy Armor)

Zarim Mutagen (Cloned Flesh)

Phijar Mutagen (Robotic)

Leptosam Mutagen (Proto Shield)

Chiten Mutagen (Alloy Armor)

Arioli Mutagen (Cloned Flesh)

Monachod Mutagen (Robotic)

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