Talk:Firedrake/@comment-33780977-20180601175645

So, I've been researching the influence of enemies' elemental resistaance on stagger/knockdown potential of different archmagicks. And tried various things on Post-Daimon Firedrake lately. This guy suppose to have 50% resistance to Holy and other elements (save for Ice) and barely 520 Magick Defense.

To my surprise I wasn't able to damage it at all with goldforged Bane Archistaff (1820 Magick Damage total) of and famous Holy Focused Bolt - and also, as I expected said setup wasn't even able to stagger it.

BTW Aparently Holy Healing effect from Holy Focused Bolt doesn't require dealing any damage as it was working with Firedrake, poorly, but still.

To my even bigger surprise pure Focused Bolt proved to be many times more effective, in both staggeing and damaging (~1000 damage to a head). Heck, piss poor High Levin also did the job.

That was totally unexpected: so far Holy Fosued Bolt was enemy shredder even when compared to some high Sorceries! Therefore I was curious: how is Magick damage calculated if even most potent brand of Focused Bolt can't scratch a Firedrake? How much Magick Damage do I need to hurt a Firedrake with Holy Focused Bolt?