Talk:Dragon's Tempest/@comment-5847779-20131212214041/@comment-5847779-20150416160522

You're misunderstanding how damage calculation works I think. This is not simply magick damage vs resistance. It's magick + resistance vs physical damage + resistance. Enemies have a fixed % resistance vs elements, but a limited nominal resistance vs physical damage. This essentially means that the higher the stats the lower the damage from magick when compared to physical damage.

Thus a weapon that has a magick stat and a fairly weak physical stat will be dealing less damage the higher its stats when compared solely to a physical damage stat. This is not even counting enemies that are resistant to lightning element.