Enemy resistances

[divisortheory]

Got this SS from a friend of mine:

http://www.infieldpress.com/parser/4...Naked%20DE.JPG

Notice at the beginning how weak the Flan is against melee. Azazel does naked katana strikes for 86, 76, 74, 74. Then Archain does a naked Dancing Edge (daggers only, no equipment) for 2574. All of a sudden, melee damage drops immensely. 25, 17, 37 melee strikes, and the 37 is from Azazel who was previously doing over twice that much every swing. Is it possible that using WS against these Flan shift their resistances around? Or that their resistances shift from other factors?

[Sci]

Those flans can change at will. Also it seems like each of the flans start off with a different amount of magic reduction and melee reduction. Like one will be really weak to magic and strong against melee, another will be really strong to magic and weak against melee, and the other two will still lean one way or the other, but not as extremely. And usually after any large amount of damage they change modes. You can see a visual change on them when they do it, their head gets these spikes on it.

They're really weak in general though, so I wouldn't worry too much about them. Our WHM was casting Banish III for 1100 dmg on our last run. I guess I should consider bringing elemental ninjutsu sometime. >_>;

[Faranim]

Archain
Arcailus
Azazel

Way to totally confuse me with similar looking names.

The Flans change mode based on "spikes" on their head or some nonsense. I've seen Burst2 do like 5000 damage. It's not like they're even remotely difficult to kill that this would matter.

[tymora]

Have done 3000+ Thunder IV on them before...seems pretty random.

[divisortheory]

It's not like they're even remotely difficult to kill that this would matter.

Yea, I mostly just noticed it as a curiosity. It definitely looks like something to watch out for on other types of potentially more difficult Salvage mobs though.

[Judai]

All Flans are like this. They have a weak to magic and weak to physical mode, just like wamouracampa. iirc when they have the spikes on their head, they are weak to physical.

[Lordwafik]

Divisor, is it really fair to compare humans to archain?

[NynJa]

Divisor, is it really fair to compare humans to archain?

I laugh when people compare their thief to his...

[divisortheory]

Divisor, is it really fair to compare humans to archain?

Speak for yourself, I'm a Mithra