Elemental Damage Types: Cannot Find Good Info

tigerblood · May 2014

I have tried searching for an explanation of frost, fire, shock, disease, etc. damage
types. I looked in wikis, nothing. Anyone have details on what these do? I know that frost probably slows but is there anything definitive? *edit* damn, no info eh?*

zgrssd · June 2014

As far as I know:
These resistances add to Armor or Spell Resistance, as apropirate for the attack.*
The summed value (general + special resist) still is subject to softcap (33% mitigation) and hardcap (50% mitigation). So less usefull if you already have high values there.

*Physical & Poision is usually Armor. Most others are usually spell resistance.

mndfreeze · June 2014

I've asked the same question and questions similar and relating to this and never got a for sure straight answer either. A lot of guessing from people but no one who seemed to know all the basics for each type. Fire places a DOT on target, Frost slows movement, Lightning is a debuff I believe, poison is a DOT, disease I dont remember but I want to say also a debuff of some sort. I'll see if I can find my post about it where some people posted what they thought and what they've found in my thread.

mndfreeze · June 2014

Here is my post on it asking about specifically weapong enchantment types for elemental variations.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/94462/weapon-enchantment-effects#latest

mndfreeze · June 2014

Check this thread also:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/71731/elemental-damage-types

Someone linked it in my thread.