Difference between revisions of "Physical Damage"

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Physical is one of the types of damage in Diablo III. It is non-elemental and also referred to as "black" damage as opposed to the colorful effects tied to all elemental damage types.

Like other forms of damage, Physical can be mitigated by physical resistance. It it also affected by armor.

Black Weapons[edit | edit source]

Diablo 3 classic has a bug with physical damage that is most commonly seen on the so-called "black weapons." This causes some +%damage modifiers to deal much higher damage when modifying "black" weapons than when acting upon all elemental types of damage. See the black weapons article for full details.

This bug was fixed in regards to Rubies in weapons in Patch 1.0.7 and will be fixed entirely on weapons dropping in Loot 2.0 and in Reaper of Souls.

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-Physical is one of the types of [[damage]] in Diablo III.
+Physical is one of the types of [[damage]] in Diablo III.  It is non-elemental and also referred to as "black" damage as opposed to the colorful effects tied to all [[elemental]] damage types.
-Most types of weapons or open-handed attacks deal physical damage, as do most monster attacks.
+Like other forms of damage, Physical can be mitigated by physical resistance. It it also affected by [[armor]].
-Physical damage can not be resisted, but it may be reduced, blocked, or absorbed.
-[[Critical hits]] scored with physical damage deal double damage, but do not pack any other bonus effect.
+==Black Weapons==
+Diablo 3 classic has a bug with physical damage that is most commonly seen on the so-called "[[black weapons]]." This causes some +%damage modifiers to deal much higher damage when modifying "black" weapons than when acting upon all elemental types of damage. See the black weapons article for full details.
-==Damage Types==
+This bug was fixed in regards to [[Rubies]] in weapons in [[Patch 1.0.7]] and will be fixed entirely on weapons dropping in [[Loot 2.0]] and in [[Reaper of Souls]].
-Blizzard's [[@Diablo]] Twitter feed added some clarification about damage types in posts made in early December 2010.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-on-damage-types-and-resistances/]
-<blockquote>any change in the range of damage types to include holy, shadow, voodoo or anything else to match the classes? —Scyberdragon<br>
-Damage types will likely change some but are currently [[Physical]], [[Fire]], [[Lightning]], [[Cold]], [[Poison]], [[Disease]], [[Arcane]], and [[Holy]]. —Diablo
-<br><br>
-Whats the difference between poison and disease damage?—WickedBubba<br>
-Disease has a damage debuff (both intake and output), and poison has a health debuff (regen/heal). Subject to change of course.—Diablo
-<br><br>
-Is there much difference between poison and disease? They’re both internal maladies that hurt over a period of time.—Grug<br>
-Fairly significant in their difference, but both countered with a single resistance. Damage/resists aren’t design complete though.—Diablo</blockquote>
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 [[category:damage]]