Weapon Type Make a Difference?

I was wondering if the type of weapon had an effect on enemies in GW? For instance, in DnD games a bludgeon weapon is very useful against skeletons while slashing weapons would incur a penalty. You could kill them, but it would take longer and you would subject yourself to greater injury.

Does this hold true in GW?

Yes, certain enemies are weak against certain types of damage. Skeletons will take extra damage from blunt weapons, but they also have a resistance to piercing damage.

Slashing does extra damage against plants. This includes things like Pinesouls and Thorn Stalkers.

That's all i know for physical damage types, resistances and weaknesses against elemental damage exist as well, but as there are so many i wont go into that.

yes, in PvE it does

strenghts:
blunt > skeletons
holy > undead
fire/slashing > plants
fire > icy mobs/earth and water titan/water and maelstrom djinn/
lightning > tengy/grawl/enchanted
cold > burning,hand,fist titan/ruby and fire djinn
earth > diamond djinn

weakness:
piercing > skeletons
fire > Destroyer/fiery mobs/mountain trolls/blessed griffons/wurm/crag
icy > saphire djinn/ice imp and elemental
earth > minotaur

Also, enemies in PvE react differently to you based on the weapon you are holding. If you were to carry a martial weapon on a caster profession, for example, they might target you with [skill=text]Empathy[/skill] or [skill=textl]Soothing Images[/skill].

Very cool. I was wondering if this was true. Thanks for the info!

Along with this, enemies will generally only use counter-caster skills against you. (i.e. dazed, Backfire, Scourge Healing, etc.)

Yes, different foes are weaker or stronger against certain damage types.

Sorry about this ... newbie here, How do you know what is the best weapon to use when it isn't obvious? I understand against ice elementals you would use fire, but what about against the various charr?

You would know via just playing a lot or checking different sources. Admittedly, that's a vague answer, but a lot of the damage type enemies are strong/weak against also just make sense - a fire weapon won't do as much against a fire elemental as it would against a water one...

Keep in mind they have armor very much like players.

Exmple a war char will have 80 armor + 20 vs physical, this mean if you equip an elemental mod to your weapon you are bypassing the 20vs physical.
Rangers are 70 + 30vs elemental so the revearse works...

Wiki may have some info, but I know of no complete listing of all monsters and their weakness.