Mindblades - Damage Type

Mickey

Mickey

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Eternal Insight

D/

All this crazy ecto farming in the Chaos Planes got me thinking about other classes. I would like to know what type of damage Mindblades do, does anyone know?

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

Not sure, but with damage type changers *which are on ele and ranger that I can think of off the bat*, it wouldn't matter.

Shaz

Shaz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Scars Meadows [SMS]

They are mesmer, so chaos damage?

Mickey

Mickey

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Eternal Insight

D/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaz
They are mesmer, so chaos damage? Yeah, see, that's the problem. Vaettir are mesmers, but they use earth damage.

Dr Dimento

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2007

E/Me

NOT IT!

I mean that in the sense that, I wont be the one using the mantras to test them!

masta_yoda

masta_yoda

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2007

most hated players in the [game]

R/Mo

i think mind blades do physical, cause they r melee, probably slashing

ProgTes

ProgTes

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

Under that rock.

We Demand A Shrubbery [Ni]

W/E

If I remember correctly Mindblade attacks do not trigger essence bond, so it is most likely chaos damage.

Esan

Esan

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2007

Wars

Bladed Aatxes, Grasping Darknesses, Mindblade Spectres, Wailing Lords, Dead Threshers/Collectors (whichever one is the melee) are melee and deal physical damage.

Banished Horsemen deal chaos damage.

Dying Nightmares, Terrorweb Dryders and the ranged Dead Threshers/Collectors deal dark damage.

These are the only damage types you will encounter in the typical chaos planes/bone pits run.

spun ducky

spun ducky

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

WTB: q8 bows

R/N

I have done many tests on them for different things and I am pretty sure they deal slashing damage. It doesn't matter so much though since they deal their real damage from spells.

kdz

kdz

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

Europe - H

Private Army of Ascalon [ARMY]

W/

the mindblades does physical damage for sure (and as I can remember the "shields up" back in the time didn't reduced their damage - so it seems to be slashing damage)

I was showing the mindblade farm to one of my guildie with my VwK warrior - My guildie was a toucher ranger.
I usually got 0-1 damage from mindblades (using gladiators armor and a -3 physical/hexed shield), but when the ranger made the Greater Conflagration spirit, they started to inflict 8-12 damage for me, as the damage turned into fire damage.