Best Damage Type.

[GoganTX]

If one were wanting to reduce the number of weapon sets being carried and wanted to have just one set of Elemental damage weapons to go with a set of Holy damage weapons, which Elemental type would you go with? I did some research on the wiki site and compiled this data:

Immune to Cold:
Ice Flenser

Immune to Electricity:
Jarilith
Marilith

Immune to Fire:
Bearded Devils
Fire Reaver
Fire Elemental
Hellhound
Horned Devil
Orthon
Pit Fiend
Sulatar Humanoid



Resistant to Acid & Cold:
Pit Fiend



Healed by Acid:
Clay Golem

Healed by Fire:
Iron Golem



Vulnerable to Cold:
Fire Reaver
Fire Elemental
Hellhound

Vulnerable to Fire:
Ice Flenser
Mummy

Based on the info above it would seem that Acid or Frost would be best. Does that fit with everyone else's opinion?

[Lorien_the_First_One]

If you are talking low level beaters (ie - before you get to GS levels), right now you'd be best to go with an acid or shock weapon and add frost to it with the Ice games crafting.

[Visty]

as devils and such are all resistant to cold and fire for at least 10 points, the best elemental weapon is a shocking one

[Darkrok]

Exactly on the shock. That's why you see monks that only have 2 sets of bursting rings from ToD carrying Holy Burst and Shocking Burst.

[Nyvn]

Vicious is 2d6 unresistable damage.

[jwdaniels]

Vicious is 2d6 unresistable damage.

Just be sure to bring your own healing or tip the clerics and favored souls well.

[Goldeneye]

• MinII for DR
• LitII for passing end-game enemies' acid resistance
• triple pos if you wanna be cheap

[GoganTX]

as devils and such are all resistant to cold and fire for at least 10 points, the best elemental weapon is a shocking one

Ah, the info on the wiki site:
http://ddowiki.com/page/Monster_DR_and_weaknesses

didn't include that Devils (Barbazu, Horned Devil, & Orthon) were resistant to Cold & Fire.

So how does Acid compare to Shocking? And yes, this is before you get to Green Steel crafting levels that I'm talking about.

Thanks for the quick responses..

[Visty]

Ah, the info on the wiki site:
http://ddowiki.com/page/Monster_DR_and_weaknesses

didn't include that Devils (Barbazu, Horned Devil, & Orthon) were resistant to Cold & Fire.

So how does Acid compare to Shocking? And yes, this is before you get to Green Steel crafting levels that I'm talking about.

Thanks for the quick responses..

devils are resistant to acid too, forgot to mention that above

they only get full damage from lightning and sonic, so better pick one of those

[Mav145]

Maybe that is why you see so many Min2 and Lit2 weapons running around.

[AzraelDB]

To add to your list -

Healed by Electricity:
Electric-Type Dream Visage (etheral Dreaming Dark Creature)

Healed by Fire:
Fire-Type Dream Visage

Healed by Acid:
Acid-Type Dream Visage

Healed by Cold:
Frostmarrow Skeletons (all variants)
Cold-Type Dream Visage