[1.2.320] Massive Buff

And that othercode would have something that reduces the damage by the value of its elemental-ness? If the skill has 50% elem, it will do 150% on weak, but 100-50 = 50% on resistant?

Never played much with these. How does Composite work on mobs mixed with weak, resistant, and neutral?

First off, Composition is rarely used because it's such a slow skill. Because they're the ones I know, LOLFPs no longer bother maxing the skill as it's easily replaced by Paralyze in 4th Job, and instead opt for Partial Resistance. But we'll have to see how the new Compositions fare to make any lasting judgments.

But I digress. To answer your question, both Elemental Compositions are comprised equally of their two respective elements. Therefore, the skill is affected by elements in the same way all other skills are, only as a fusion of two different "reactions," per se. For example, if you're using F/P Comp on a mob that is Fire resist and Poison neutral, the damage will be reduced by 25%. (1/2 of the skill is reduced by 50%). If the mob is Fire weak and Poison resist, the damage remains neutral. Perhaps the easiest way to think about it would be similar to dual-type Pokemon (ex. Lapras is Water/Ice, so Fire attacks do 2x damage to 1/2 of the typing and 0.5x to the other, which equates out to 1x normal damage).

I don't know if this applies to the Blaze Wizard Elemental Reset, but the Evan Elemental Reset no longer does this.

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THIS is what I though Elemental Reset did, and what I was referring to in my previous post. It only makes sense as a useful skill to completely remove the aspect of an elemental skill that would trigger multiplicative effects based on weakness/resistance/immunity. As these pictures prove that's the case, and the logic is sound, all is well and good...except for the fact that people are claiming Elemental Weapon bonuses still aplly when buffed with Reset. This begs the question of exactly how elements and element based skills are treated in the game, as it appears there are two distinct sectors for each skill that denote an elemental affinity: one that is used for determining the appropriate multiplier, and which is "normalized" with Reset, and another that acts as an identification tag for the skill as a particular element, which is used by Elemental Weapons to identify which skills receive which bonuses.

Would this query be up your alley of data to help us with, Paul?