What about Damage Resistance from Shifter Forms? Will they stack with items? Spells? Feats? --213.114.34.164 April 2008
- Damage resistance gained through shifter forms follows the same rules as DR gained from item properties. (Because it technically is an item property.) --The Krit 17:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Question. If you add bludgeoning or piercing damage to a greatsword, and I attacked a person with -20 slash resistance, would the piercing or bludgeoning damage punch through because he doesn't have resistances to those? Or does it behave like a halberd being slash-pierce? --71.146.7.239 February 5, 2010
- Adding bludgeoning damage does not cause the weapon to do bludgeoning damage. Rather the type of physical damage that a weapon does is its base type (for greatsword this is slashing) plus an extra damage type properties that the weapon has. For example the longarm bow does not have a bludgeoning damage property but it does have "extra ranged damage: bludgeoning" which means that all the physical damage it deals is bludgeoning/piercing. All the meaning to the different damage types you can add to a weapon are for stacking reasons. A character's physical damage is the highest piercing property of the weapon + the highest slashing property of the weapon + the highest bludgeoning property of the weapon + the weapon's base damage + any physical damage associated with the player all of which has a damage type determined solely by the weapon's damage type.
- So a greatsword with +5 bludgeoning and a +5 enhancement, will do an extra 10 slashing damage. A greatsword with a +5 enhancement and +5 slashing damage, will do an extra 5 slashing damage (as the damage of the enhancement is the same damage type as the bonus damage property.) If the greatsword had extra melee damage: bludgeoning, a +5 enhancement, and +5 bludgeoning damage, it would deal an extra 10 bludgeoning/slashing damage and all (non-scripted) physical damage the character deals with that weapon equipped had the damage type bludgeoning/slashing.WhiZard 13:35, February 5, 2010 (UTC)
- In summary, no and no. A +X piercing damage property on a greatsword increases the slashing damage inflicted. (See WhiZard's reply for more details and examples; this is just a summary.) --The Krit 15:31, February 5, 2010 (UTC)