Damage Type

A Damage Type (or Elemental Damage) is an attribute of a weapon or ability that has potential to do bonus damage depending on an enemy's shield or whether or not a Burn modifier is active. Damage types comes in 6 types: Kinetic, Solar, Arc, Void, Stasis, and Strand.

The color of an enemy's shield represents which damage type it is vulnerable to. Using a damage type against the corresponding shield will do 200% damage. Using a damage type against a non-corresponding shield will do 100% damage.

In Destiny, burn modifiers increase the damage of weapons and abilities, depending on their damage types, up to 200% for Guardians and 300% for enemies.

In Destiny 2, enemy shields are much more volatile as breaking them with the matching damage type will result in an elemental explosion, dealing significant area-of-effect damage to all others in close proximity. Because the damage type of these explosions is the same as the enemy's shield, this can cause a chain reaction of explosions when nearby enemies with matching shield types are caught in the blast radius.

Damage Types

• Kinetic
• Arc
• Solar
• Void
• Stasis
• Strand

Trivia

• Each of the Elements are reference to real life phenomenon and energies such as:
  • Kinetic is motion and kinetic energy.
  • Solar requires Guardians to both exploit and rely on the power of the sun.
  • Arc is the element of motion and conduction, and is created when the electromagnetic forces of our universe struggle to achieve balance.
  • Void is the element of cosmic distortion. It is the pull of gravity and the promise of entropy.
  • Stasis is the element of will and control, it slows, detains, and shatters. It was the first step into Darkness, and taught them the universe is not as black and white as it first seemed.
  • Strand is the natural flow of life. It is the elemental manifestation of psychic connection. But unlike Stasis, mastering this Darkness requires one to relinquish control. to embrace the connecting threads of consciousness, and perhaps flow with them.
• Stasis was introduced in the Beyond Light expansion for Destiny 2.
• Strand was introduced in the Lightfall expansion for Destiny 2