Damage

Damage is a key Gameplay mechanic in Soulframe. It can be inflicted by Weapons, Pacts, Foes and Hazards. It is more than just a way to reduce an opponent's Life to 0 - it comes in different forms, adept at overcoming specific defenses and inflicting unique effects.

There are currently 11 types of damage in Soulframe, each adept at overcoming specific defenses and inflicting unique effects:

Note that these currently use Warframe icons as a placeholder, due to the two games' shared codebase until Soulframe's damage types receive further tuning and icons of their own.

Many sources of damage will scale to higher values based on the relevant stats. Most of these scaling damage values are capped in one way or another:

This is the Damage Cap for the weapon itself, and does not include additional buffs, either temporary (such as Runes or

Fellust

) or permanent (such as Totems or

Soulbound

). However, it is possible to use temporary Virtue buffs, such as

, to reach a weapon's Damage Cap prior to external damage buffs.

Note that Heavy Attack damage is not displayed correctly in the in-game UI at the current time - read the Damage Data section for information on how accurate damage values are calculated.

For more information on how weapons scale with Virtues, see Attunement. For information on how weapons' Damage Caps have been calculated, see Damage Data.

Once example is

Rump Thump

, which will scale with the Envoy's Armour stats until reaching its Damage Cap.

Arcanic is a damage type that has a chance to inflict Arcanic Status on Foes. Arcanic Status deals 100% of the hit's damage over 2 ticks, for 50% damage per tick that are affected by Enemy Armour.

When inflicted by enemies, Arcanic will count as Magick Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Magick Defense.

• Alca's Breath
• Archstorm
• Basker's Wrest (note that this will eventually be corrected to Flame in a future Update.
• Esthelle
• Gwylen
• Seathorn
• Silistavf
• The Alder
• The Erstroot

Blunt is a Physical damage type.

When inflicted by enemies, Blunt will count as Physical Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Physical Defense.

• Rook

Flame is a damage type that has a chance to set Foes ablaze. Targets who are on fire will receive an additional 35% damage per second over 4 seconds, and their Enemy Armour will also be reduced by up to 50%. The armour reduction reduces gradually over 6 seconds after the burn effect is over.

• The proc does not appear to stack.

When inflicted by enemies, Flame will count as Magick Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Magick Defense.

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• Hungry Flame
• Ignus Wroth
• Ember
• Inferno
• Everflame
• Everflame
• Torcheternal
• Emberaught
• Forburn
• Torches

Sharp is a Physical damage type and the most common, dealt by almost every Foe and Weapon in Soulframe.

• It can inflict Bleed: a damage-over-time status effect equal to 20% the attack's damage each tick for 5 ticks.

When inflicted by enemies, Sharp will count as Physical Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Physical Defense.

Voltaic is a damage type that has a chance to cause a stun effect.

• Voltaic status briefly staggers the affected enemy and nearby enemies, while making the target enemy take additional stagger damage.

When inflicted by enemies, Voltaic will count as Magick Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Magick Defense.

The

, whilst a Hazard, does not directly deal any Voltaic damage to players.

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• Odiac
• Galvanic Strike
• Astra Sphere
• Hurlwind
• A variety of Ode'n special attacks, such as lightning-charged Sinecure blades, or Voltaic blasts conjured by Sinecure Knights.

??? is a damage type which can enable friendly-fire and causes those affected to glow a purple hue.

When inflicted by enemies, ??? will count as Magick Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Magick Defense.

• Flayed Reaper's spit attack

??? is a damage type with an unknown effect. Visually, it causes sparks to fly from the heads of those affected.

When inflicted by enemies, ??? will count as Magick Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Magick Defense.

• Ode'n Mistrel self-destruct
• Sinecure Knight (Shield) shield smash

??? is a Physical damage type. Can reduce damage by 40% and causes those affected to glow green whilst emitting yellow particles.

When inflicted by enemies, ??? will count as Physical Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Physical Defense.

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• Weaver
• Sinecure Scout
• Ichorous Wardog

??? is a damage type which can cause a blue, low-damage flame-like effect.

When inflicted by enemies, ??? will count as Magick Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Magick Defense.

• The Circade
• Rotted Swampsprout grenades
• Flayed Reaper flame trails
• Torch-bearer Sinecure Soldier torch attacks
• Rovgot Ruins candelabras

??? is a damage type which can slow targets and causes enemies affected to become covered in frost.

When inflicted by enemies, ??? will count as Magick Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Magick Defense.

• Weaver web attack

Poison is a damage type which has a chance to inflict the poisoned status effect, which deals small amounts of damage over time.

• Damage dealt is 16.25% hit damage over 8 ticks for a total of 130%. Damage is not affected by Enemy Armour.

When inflicted by enemies, Poison will count as Magick Damage, and thus be mitigated by the Envoy's Magick Defense.

• Rotted Sproutfolk (Spear) spear attack