Slashing Damage

Slashing Damage is a Stat that represents a type of physical damage - generally inflicted by Swords, Daggers, and Longswords. Armor can give resistance to slashing damage - in game this is called Piercing Resistance (also known as Slashing Resistance). Both are expressed as percentages.

Slashing damage is generally damage done by sharp edged or pointy weapons.

Overview

All the weapons in Dragon's Dogma are classed as either 100% slashing or 100% bludgeoning.

When physical slashing damage is calculated, the actual damage is reduced (or increased) by the piercing resistance. However weak resistance to slashing damage will not help break a strong foe's defenses - if the damage after defense was zero, it will remain zero even if the creature is weak to slashing attacks.

Human resistances come entirely from clothing and armor; with no clothing and armor, the Piercing resistance is zero.

Armored character with 7% piercing and 5% striking resistance

Naked character with 0% piercing and striking resistances

Creature resistances

• For a list, see List of Creature Elemental and Melee Resistances

Notes

See also: Blunt Damage

• A weapon's slash power is expressed as Slashing Power in the game.
• For more details on how damage, power, and resistances affect health damage on foes and allies see Damage Calculation.
• It is thought that the physical component of the spells Gicel and High Gicel are slashing damage.
• For the individual pages on creatures the values are given as weakness expressed as literal percentage of the slashing damage - thus a value of 80% means that 80% of the theoretical damage is done.
• The armor set with the highest resistance is the Steel Armor Set (46% resistance) when worn with the Silver Chainmail Set (16% resistance) for a total of 62%. (values when gold rarified)
  • The Set of Duke's Clothing is also very resistant at 60%
  • The poorest resistance is probably the Grisly Armor Set with negative resistance overall of -8%.
  • Generally piercing resistances increase as an armor is enhanced, dragonforged, and rarified.
• It is not clear why no mixed slashing or piercing and bludgeoning weapons have been coded - there are many weapons that have both blunt and sharp elements, e.g. the Steel Urchin.