What do the different weapon damages imply?

Question

So far in my adventuring throughout the world of Kingdoms of Amalur, I've discovered several weapons with stats like:

• +11 Physical Damage
• +6 Piercing Damage

I realize that Physical damage is base damage, while piercing damage is damage that ignores the enemy's armor rating. What I'm wondering is:

Are these two types of damage included separately?

(i.e. +11 Physical, +6 Piercing for a total of 17 damage vs. +11 Physical damage, 6 of which ignores enemy armor)

Asked by Tristan

Answer

Yes. Like the Magic options, physical damage has "schools". Magic has Fire, Lightning, Poison, etc, and Martial has "Piercing", "Physical", etc.

These quantities are distinct.

+11 Physical
+11 Piercing

has twice the base damage of

+11 Piercing

Answered by Raven Dreamer

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