Talk:Dragon's Tempest/@comment-5847779-20131212214041/@comment-23878607-20150416181406

I don't think that's quite correct, either. The magick defense threshold is separate from the physical defense threshold; magick damage is not applied to DEF, nor is physical damage applied to MDEF. If a magickal attack itself is so low that it doesn't defeat the enemy's MDEF threshold even with an elemental enchantment bonus, then the enemy is unaffected.

This is why most characters with high physical attack have problems with physical-resistant enemies in deeper BBI; the MDEF is itself so high that their lesser magical attack simply doesn't defeat the enemy's MDEF. This is demonstrated when a high strength build with a high physical damage weapon goes up against a second-form Living Armor.