Damage Types

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Damage types are:

Edged	(aka Slashing, Battle, Bladed)
Blunt	(aka Crushing, Stone, Disruptive)
Fire	(aka Flame, Starfire, Thermal)
Ice	(aka Frost, Winter, Subkelvin)
Acid	(aka Corrosion, Oxidation)
Electricity	(aka Lightning, Storm, Voltage)
Mind	(aka Psionic, Thought)
Energy	(aka Power, Balefire, Sonic)
Poison	(aka Virulence, Venom, Toxic)
Radiation	(aka Light, Decay, Valence)

The damage types and resistances of specific mobs can make your choice of weapons and armour very important. Some mobs can be very susceptable to one specific damage type, making some weapons far more effective than others and some mobs can cause huge amounts of one type of damage that can rapidly kill you without the right type of armour on.

Most mobs cause Edged and/or Blunt damage but the larger the mob, the more likely it will be to do a non-Edged/Blunt damage type or have a special attack.