What is your favourite damage type and why?

MindOfTheSwarm

Select from the options below and elaborate.

LunaFlora

Bleed

Bleed is fun because it bleeds.

i also like Frost, but dislike the sound.

MindOfTheSwarm

Frost

I like the way that Frost focuses on applying Chilled so much. It’s a unique way to play the game with such a status focused style. One of the few play styles that really utilises the Charged trait to maximum value. I think the Frost Destro and Winter’s Embrace skills need some more work but that’s another post.

Erickson9610

Bleed

Bleed is Werewolf's main damage type since Update 42. I love the thematic idea of rending the flesh of your foes in a bloody fashion.

The Hemorrhaging status effect is also interesting; it's a damage over time that gets stronger the more it's applied, up to three stacks. Bleed Damage is also buffed by the Blooddrinker set in a way that no other damage type is.

JaxontheUnfortunate

Bleed

Yeah as a ww main bleed

opaj

Shock

I mostly don't care, but with Stormcursed it's fun to stack lightning for days.

fizzylu

Flame

Just because I like the VFX most, which is too bad as a sorc main since Zenimax likes to force classes into using certain types of damage.

SilverIce58

Frost

Frost but also Shock. If I use double destro staves on a character, usually I'll go this route. Funny that both affect not only health but also the resources (stamina and magicka respectively) in single player games. Flame is cool, but overdone imo.

Artim_X

Oblivion

Oblivion damage is justice!

Taril

Oblivion

I like to deal percentage health damage. It's a neat mechanic.

SkaraMinoc

Disease

For PvP, I use Physical and Shock the most. However I've started using the Disease morphs of the two Scribing abilities Pestilent Soul and Pestilent Burst. All enemy players around me have nearly 100% uptime on Minor Defile.

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Bleed

If it bleeds we can kill it!

spartaxoxo

Shock

I like shock because the heavy attack on the shock destro is just so satisfying to use. Also the shock damage looks cool.

SeaGtGruff

Physical

I get Bleed damage from my weapons, but my favorite kind of damage is Physical damage-- because it's simple. That doesn't stop me from adding other types of damage to my weapon's basic Physical damage, but those are just extras.

Artem_gig

Flame

not because it’s effective or anything else, but because I basically love fire. That's why scribing was the best update for me. Before scribing, I couldn't use fire on my stam sorc without resorting to a staff. Now I can burn my enemies with absolutely any weapon. I'm just happy.

Bobargus

Oblivion

I like knight slayer and sload's semblance.

Tariq9898

Flame

I'm a DK so fire is the way to go for me.

MindOfTheSwarm

Frost

Taril wrote: »

I like to deal percentage health damage. It's a neat mechanic.

I like it too. I hope the next class has some built in Oblivion Damage skills. Obviously balance would be a problem but perhaps if it was some kind of “curse” debuff that could not stack on players, but could stack on PVE enemies. With a top end cap of course.

agelonestar

Flame

Fire, because...... fire

I'd really like it if Sorc had retained its original identity as a shock-master, but we can't have everything. I think you get more out of flame damage.

alpha_synuclein

Flame

It's fun to see the world burn xd

TybaltKaine

Frost

Because flame is overdone, and because I always had a crush on Shiva from FF.

amig186

Magic

Because friendship is magic.

And it's the closest thing ESO has to holy damage.

MindOfTheSwarm

Frost

Special shout out to Disease. We need more Disease skills. Although my new Disease Necro bomber is disgusting in PvP and not a slouch in pve either.

emilyhyoyeon

Shock

My personal favorite is shock thematically and aesthetically. I think I blame watching Avatar the Last Airbender as a kid and, while I thought everything in there was cool, the lightning bending especially so. And when I started playing TES, before I started making characters and roleplaying, I adored lightning spells. I haven't really ever played many games other than TES, but I did play Bioshock and just loved the visual of electro bolt.

It's not really about how shock is played in ESO though or any game, it's really just about the visual and power fantasy. Game wise, I'd agree with the OP about frost because I always had the most fun on my ice warden keeping up brittle with destructive reach, without a charged staff.

All my various characters have various skills, ways of approaching combat, and their own ''favorite damage types'' because of roleplay and stuff, of course, so I really enjoy any type of damage and fighting based on the character I'm roleplaying at the time. But, personally, I love shock.

TaSheen

Physical

I've never really been a fan of magic in TES games. Swords and bows, swords and bows.... Not bows in ESO though. I do have magicka characters, but I don't really play them much. I even have CP 160 magicka characters. Still don't play them much.

Necrotech_Master

Oblivion

because unresistable dmg ftw

i just wish sources of oblivion dmg in this game were just not like super bad (they are all but useless in pve due to the low hard caps and no crits, and only marginally useful in pvp)

ArchangelIsraphel

Shock

I'm sorry it had to be done.

SkaiFaith

spartaxoxo wrote: »

I like shock because the heavy attack on the shock destro is just so satisfying to use. Also the shock damage looks cool.

Agree, but now imagine if frost staves would work the same - how cool would that be?!
Frost ranged-tethered heavy attacks... Gives me chills

BasP

Frost

I've always been partial to Frost Damage in games for some reason. Which is pretty strange now that I think about it, because I dislike the cold and winter is my least favourite season...

Anyways, I like Frost Damage in ESO as well. That's part of the reason why I main a Stamden and a Frostden is my second most played character. And it's cool that my Magcro can use Chilling Knife or Ghostly Embrace as semi-spammables now, instead of lobbing flaming skulls.

For my MagDK, I go all in in Flame Damage though, and Physical Damage is nice too due to Sundered procs.

DP99

Poison

Poison. Nothing better for my dual blades.

DreamyLu

Flame.

I don't fight much and if I do, it must go fast. For me personally, it works better with flame damages.