Purging Blade & Flame of 12,000 Angels are really bad

[punkin]

Not sure if Atlus meant for these two passives to be insanely bad, but since the original version of the game on Switch came out, I have always wanted to make Abdiel work in meaningful fights. So when Vengeance was released & I saw Abdiel's passive, I was excited thinking she could finally maybe dish out damage like some of the other demons you see in superboss videos


Well! I immediately noticed that Abdiel's damage kind of .. sucks. Today I took the time to test these skills & make sure I'm not just imagining things. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but both Purging Blade & Flame of 12,000 Angels should affect Abdiel's damage output if she strikes an enemy's weakness, no?

The Abdiel I have in my party has Elec Pleroma, High Elec Pleroma, +9 Elec Affinity, Critical Zealot, & of course the Purging Blade passive.

Against Yamata No Orochi, a Storm Draco Strike

W/ Crit no Camael in the active party
2562-2784

W/ no crit & no Camael in the active party
1271-1292

W/ crit w/ Camael in the active party
2951-3207

W/ no crit w/ Camael in the active party
1484

Am I misunderstanding these passives? How do they work? Only a ~1.1-1.2x increase in damage? That's.... really pathetic. Sorry Abdiel, they did you insanely dirty :(

[Lynfinity]

The precise multiplier is 1.15.

It's the same thing with "Nine-Day Restoration" (Serpent Nuwa's passive) - only a 1.1x increase for hitting weaknesses, but at least it doesn't require a specific Race to be present.