Impact

Impact, sometimes called Kinetic Damage, is a physical type of damage which can be done when any ammunition collides with the target. Simply put, it is the damage type with is not any other damage type mentioned below (i.e., It is not Acid/Elemental/Combo/Shield Breaker/Armor Buster).

Although Impact is interchangeably used with Single Target damage, it can also be blast damage if the item has the capacity to do so. All javelins available to the Freelancer can do impact damage. Most enemies do Impact Damage.

Impact damage should be considered as Kinetic Damage whenever it is not doing Single Target Damage (i.e., when it does multi-target and Blast). Impact damage is NOT the same as Combo Impact damage bonus of a Ranger.

Impact/Kinetic damage floaties are white in color.

Mechanism[]

Impact damage can do 1x the damage mentioned in the details of any weapon or gear without considering additional bonuses and multipliers. When all the damage is combined, Impact damage will still do only 1x the damage to any target. Targets under acid status will receive 1.25x damage to them. Targets weakened by support gear will receive 1.33x the damage. Enemies under both acid status and weakened through support will receive 1.67x the net damage.

Other Features[]

Impact damage has several other features:

Impact Damage can only detonate a combo. And it can only do it if the Combat Equipment used is a Detonator.
Impact Blast Damage does the same damage as mentioned above, but within a blast radius.

Impact Damage Dealing Enemies[]

The following enemies do Impact Damage and Impact Blast Damage to their foes. Impact Blast Damage dealing enemies will have impact blast icon before their attack names in their respective page, but not in-game.

List of Enemies
Anrisaur Ash Brute Ash Skorpion Bristleback Brute Digester Dominion Argent Trooper Dominion Frost Brute Dominion Frost Hound Dominion Fury Dominion Shocktrooper Dominion Storm Brute Flak Turret Frost Wolven Gauss Turret Grenade Turret Ice Stalker Korox Luminary Machine Gun Turret Missile Turret Outlaw (Enemy) Outlaw Gunner Outlaw Lancer Outlaw Rocket Trooper Outlaw Shotgunner Outlaw Turrets Rocket Turret Scar Destroyer Scar Enforcer Scar Hunter Scar Scout Scar Scrapper Scelos Soldier Swarm Tyrant The Unfathomed Thunder Fang Ursix Vara (Cataclysm Form) Wolven

Impact Damage Combat Equipment[]

The following weapons and gear can do Impact Damage (single target) to enemies during combat.

List of Combat Equipment
Aftershock Anvil Artinia's Gambit Avenging Herald Bad Omen Barrage Blades of Warding Blastback Close Encounter Cloudburst Constrictor Cycle of Pain Deadeye Death From Above Defender Divine Vengeance Elemental Rage Endless Siege Fist of Stral Fist of the Mountain Fulcrum Glorious Result Guardian Hailstorm Hammerhead Havoc Howling Veil Light of the Legion Mauler Papa Pump Pyrrhic Victory Radiant Fortress Rainmaker Ralner's Blaze Rampager Razorwing Recurring Vengeance Relentless Renewed Courage Resolution Retaliation of Garretus Riza's Ripper Rolling Carnage Ruthless Stalker Scattershot Scout Searching Glaive Seeking Missile Seismic Mace Sentinel's Vengeance Sledgehammer Soothing Touch Spectre's Flash Thunderbolt of Yvenia Torrent Trajector Twin Blades Unending Battle Vassa's Surprise Vengeance Warden Wyvern Blitz

Impact Blast Damage Combat Equipment[]

Impact Blast damage is the area of effect impact damage done within a blast radius mentioned in the statistics of a weapon or gear.

List of Combat Equipment
Again and Again Argo's Mace Best Defense Bitter Harvest Blast Missile Cluster Mine Earthshaker Final Judgment Frag Grenade Grand Opening High-Explosive Mortar Last Argument Riza's Ripper Seeker Grenades Seismic Glove Shadow Claw Shard Storm Siege Artillery Tempest Strike

Trivia[]

Impact is the most used damage type among enemies and allies.
Most weapons can do Impact damage.

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