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The following is a list of all elements and damage types in Final Fantasy XIV.

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Damage in Final Fantasy XIV is divided into two categories, type and element, with type determining whether an attack deals physical or magical damage, mitigated by Defense and Magic Defense respectively. Additional damage types include "Breath" and "Limit Break", which aren't mitigated by any defensive attribute. All damaging abilities have both a type and an element.

From the launch of the A Realm Reborn expansion through the launch of the Stormblood expansion, players had access to elemental resistance attributes. However due to the lacking importance of elemental resistances in the relaunch version, they were removed from player stats in patch 4.1, along with elemental defensive potions and materia.

Similar to elements, physical damage may be split further into three groups—slashing, piercing, and blunt. Players have access to physical resistance attributes to further mitigate them. Unlike elemental resistances, physical resistances can still be found on older equipment, but have little to no relevance to modern gameplay due to their low item levels. Players used to have access to actions that would increase a target's damage taken by specific physical damage types, but they have since been removed. Physical player actions are listed internally as having rather than a defined type, and instead adapt the damage dealt based on their discipline; when these actions are used NPCs, their damage type defaults to slashing.

Despite the deprecation of elemental and physical resistances, these elements and types do still play a role. All abilities are still assigned a physical damage type and/or element, and certain status effects can increase or decrease the damage dealt by abilities of the appropriate type/element, such as a Black Mage Black Mages Astral Fire, which increases fire damage dealt. More commonly bosses will inflict status effects that increase damage taken from types or elements they use. Non-damaging spells may occasionally have elements applied to them as well, though this has no effect in practice.

Elements are also still important for Blue Mages, as many opponents at the Masked Carnivale will have their own elemental resistances and weaknesses, and it is up to the player to collect a range of spells that cover various elements in order to best take advantage of their opponent. Blue Mages are in turn the only discipline with access to every element and physical damage type.

the forbidden land, eureka features its own element system that operates independently of the elements assigned to abilities. Instead, every enemy found within Eureka is assigned an element, while players are assigned a Magia Board wheel. Players can then slot magicite they earn throughout the region into the Board to bolster their own elemental alignments, and spin the wheel to shift their alignment as necessary to take advantage of the elemental weaknesses of their opponents.

List of types[]

Type Description Stat mitigation
Major types
Physical Physical
(物理, Butsuri?)
Used by all disciplines Defense
Magic Magic
(魔法, Mahō?)
Used by Astrologians, Black Mages, Blue Mages, Dark Knights, Ninjas, Paladins, Reapers, Red Mages, Sages, Scholars, Summoners, and White Mages. Magic Defense
Unique Unique
(特殊, Tokushu?)
Exclusive to enemies outside of Limit Breaks and some Blue Mage actions. n/a
Subtypes
Slashing Slashing
(, Ki?)
Used by Astrologians, Blue Mages, Dark Knights, Gunbreakers, Ninjas, Paladins, Reapers, Samurais, and Warriors. Slashing Resistance
Piercing Piercing
(, Tsu?)
Used by Bards, Blue Mages, Dancers, Dragoons, Machinists, and Red Mages. Piercing Resistance
Blunt Blunt
(, Da?)
Used by Black Mages, Blue Mages, Monks, Scholars, Summoners, and White Mages. Blunt Resistance
Projectile Projectile
(, I?)
Exclusive to enemies, used extremely rarely. Unused Projectile Resistance attribute
Breath Breath
(ブレス, Buresu?)
Used exclusively by enemies. n/a
Limit Break Limit Break
(リミットブレイク, Rimitto Bureiku?)
Used by Limit Breaks and Adrenaline Rushes.
Scales with the party's combined weapon damage rather than the individual who performed it.
n/a
Unique Sound
(音波, Onpa?)
Unused. n/a
Typeless Typeless Action deals damage but doesn't have a defined damage type. Used exclusively by enemies. n/a
Fixed Fixed Unofficial damage type that deals fixed damage. Action has one of the above damage types, but ignores any mitigation and always registers as Unique damage. n/a
Fractional Fractional Unofficial damage type that deals fractional damage based on target's current or max HP. Action has one of the above damage types, but ignores any mitigation and always registers as Unique damage. n/a

List of elements[]

Element Description Mitigated by
Fire Fire Used by Black Mages, Blue Mages, Dragoons, Machinists, Ninjas, Red Mages, and Summoners.
Element of Ifrit, Ravana, and Zurvan.
Fire Resistance(Removed in 4.1.)
Ice Ice Used by Black Mages, Blue Mages, and Ninjas.
Element of Shiva and Zurvan.
Ice Resistance(Removed in 4.1.)
Wind Wind Used by Bards, Blue Mages, Ninjas, Red Mages, Summoners, and White Mages.
Element of Garuda, Bismarck, Sephirot, and Sophia.
Wind Resistance(Removed in 4.1.)
Earth Earth Used by Blue Mages, Ninjas, Red Mages, Summoners, and White Mages.
Element of Titan, Ravana, and Sephirot.
Earth Resistance(Removed in 4.1.)
Lightning Lightning Used by Black Mages, Blue Mages, Ninjas, and Red Mages.
Element of Ramuh, Sophia, and Susano.
Lightning Resistance(Removed in 4.1.)
Water Water Used by Blue Mages, Ninjas, and White Mages.
Element of Leviathan, Bismarck, and Susano.
Water Resistance(Removed in 4.1.)
Unaspected Used by all disciplines. Most physical attacks are unaspected. n/a
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