User talk:Scathias

I've tried Lightning with Excalibur, and attack the boss with and without plant killer, the different between both attacks are not much different. so clearly plant killer & light attack do not stack. About the average elemental damage between fire & light, I highly doubt that as well.

To test the elemental average theory go find a mob with 100% resistance to an element, I am going to use the ADV S5 version of Europa. now take the Water Blade materia and equip that, and equip a Coral Sword. The coral sword makes all your physical attacks lightning based, and the water blade skill makes your attacks to water damage. So what is going to happen when you attack europa? the boss has 100% resistance to water, but is weak to lightning by 20%. Go try it out and see what happens. And also, I don't know if you are active on the FFBE reddit community but this question pops up all the time on there. Here is some tests from there. in addition, the wiki here also states this is how it works Elemental Resistance.

I have also tried hitting the boss with plant killer active (with no elemental weapon) and i did not get a 'weakness' message at all, i am still unsure if it is just a display bug and i am getting boosted damage from plant killer or if it is not procing at all (since demon killer doesn't seem to work either). The Rider is classed as a Demon Plantoid so this might be messing things up since it isn't strictly a 'plant'

And figuring out what the root problem actually is is a bit of a problem since my only source of plant killer is my Ifrit and thus my attack varies significantly if I use a different esper and it becomes hard to tell if the results i am seeing are different because of a) my change in attack, b)the fact i do/do not have plant killer equipped, c)attacks have about a 10% damage variation Physical Damage Mechanics or some combination of them all. --Scathias (talk) 22:06, 24 October 2016 (EDT)