What do Magic Damage and Defense do?

[o4zloiroman]

I assume Defense is flat damage reduction, and magic is... pure damage?

[AuburnRDM]

I haven't tested anything yet, but I'd imagine Magic Damage is a different type of damage that works better on enemies such as the skeletons.

[Ryuichito]

To me magic damage just seems like consistent damage added to your attacks, unlike say weapons which have a damage range.

[Lord_Abaddon]

Originally posted by Ryuichito:

To me magic damage just seems like consistent damage added to your attacks, unlike say weapons which have a damage range.

This, It seems just like flat damage added to attacks. I don't think there are weakness's in this game or atleast none that I have seen.

[agent8261]

I don't think magic damage is blocked by defense. I think defense is flat damage reduction.
Stacking defense is really good.

[Doombringer]

Defense is not flat damage reduction, but it does reduce damage taken.
Not sure of formula yet...

[Sukaki]

so I've notice that with magic damage I was able to one shot ghost and ghost of a ghost and when I swapped gear without it would take 2 to 3 hits to kill them.

I believe magic damage ignores monster armor or at least help deal damage to ghost but it only work on normal attack.

tested damage all when I had 25 on one loop and 9 on the next with and with out magic damage the ghost where taking for 2 to 6 damage so magic damage dose not effect damage all as the ghost seem to have hit armor.

also knowing that at least with damage all it seems to have a minimum damage of 1 so seems damage all is best for early large groups or if you have vampire's to block the vamp but it would also seem that magic damage is better for late loops to by pass enemies armor.

[Doombringer]

Not all enemies have armor, but for the ones that do, yes magic damage is good.
(So is storm temple lightning. As you increase the number of temples in a row/column, it increases their damage by the armor of the target.)