Diablo3 Damage Types

There are different types of damage in Diablo 3. These are caused by various spells, runes and weapons. Characters and monsters counter these attacks with equivalent types of resistance and immunities. Players must find the right balance of their abilities to succeed in their battles and conquer the different damage types casted upon them.

Every form of damage can count for a critical hit and when this happens, a bonus effect is added along with increased damage. Targets that die form critical hits usually explode in a gory manner.

The Elemental Damage types are the Arcane, Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Poison. There are also Disease Damage and Holy Damage.

These different types can be realized through three ways – the Melee damage, ranged damage and spell damage. For the Melee damage, the attacker is toe-to-toe to the defender. Most weapons are melee weapons. For the ranged damage, there is a distance between the attacker and the defender. Bows and crossbows are usually used for ranged damage. And for the Spell Damage, the attacker uses spells from a Skill Tree against the defender.