Illuminate does ARC Damage?

[AnthraX]

are they using ARC Damage or is another type of damage what armour is good?

[VIRUSOID]

Towers, drones and Harvesters at close range are.

[Twisty]

My go-to armour for any mission is either
- cheat death perk
- more throwables perk

But im pretty sure the Illuminate ise arc damage

[Enforcer]

Yes it's Arc damage. It's wise to use the Arc resistant armor against them. Either the latest ones we got or the old ones we already have, latter being more effective.

[Chocbomb]

You would assume the ancient alien race would be using something new that we could backwards engineer.
But i guess space squids use the same electricity as us.

[Jelly]

Arc and plasma

[Hi, I'm Ari.]

Originally posted by ARCH Jelly:

Arc and plasma

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Arc damage from things that look like the arc throwers projectile, everything else is plasma or melee from voteless

[Hi, I'm Ari.]

Arc res armor works well. It will save you. Sometimes I can go an entire game without getting hit by even 1 arc projectile, but some games I get hit multiple times. These would usually instantly kill you or do 90% of your health in damage, but with 95% arc resistance the damage is not even worth mentioning.

[Botji]

Arc resistance is useful against the Illuminate for the same reason explosive resistance is useful if you like stepping on very obvious mines.

The better option is simply "Don't".

[solid steve]

Originally posted by Botji:

Arc resistance is useful against the Illuminate for the same reason explosive resistance is useful if you like stepping on very obvious mines.

The better option is simply "Don't".

I'd say the difference is that arc damage is basically null with resistance armor

[Botji]

Originally posted by Nexus0:

Originally posted by Botji:

Arc resistance is useful against the Illuminate for the same reason explosive resistance is useful if you like stepping on very obvious mines.

The better option is simply "Don't".

I'd say the difference is that arc damage is basically null with resistance armor

Sure but "you making stupid mistakes" is still the source of it and you can quite easily 100% nullify the arc damage without any armor perk just by not making them.

Drones do barely any damage even without resistances and there is NO reason they should be allowed to live long enough to slowly float into range and zap people. On the top 10 priority targets when fighting the Illuminate they take up the first 7 spots on the list.

Arc Towers are well.. stationary and pretty much only found in their bases. Why would you run around in their bases like a headless chicken when you know these are around? At least be ready to dive to the ground and you are fine. Ignore these and you pretty much had a big sign warning you about THE ONE mine and then stepped on THE ONE mine that was there instead of casually walking around it, or exploding it from a distance.

Harvesters are much the same as the towers except they are super obvious where they are so why or how are you even getting so close to them that their zap is a danger without you or your team killing it/them first?

"Don't" and arc resistance is pointless against them.
Only legit threat is friendlies zapping you but tbfh that is not your problem to fix but their "Don't"!



I mean sure if you want to use a flamethrower or something against the Harvesters then arc resistance is great but for any somewhat normal loadout its very unnecessary. Explosive resistance would be much more relevant to reduce the damage from random staff Overseers and sneaky grenades you didnt see from the fliers.

[Glimmer]

Overseers use Plasma weaponry. (Or Melee if they're bonking you with their bonkstick).

Arc damage comes from one of the Harvesters' attacks or from their Arc Towers.

[Shively]

Some of their damage is arc, yeah.

Protip: arc protection armor and the Blitz shotgun are way more effective against Illuminate than you would expect them to be. But also not as effective as you want them to be.

[The King]

Originally posted by Twisty:

My go-to armour for any mission is either
- cheat death perk
- more throwables perk

But im pretty sure the Illuminate ise arc damage

the Cheat Death perk is so good i don't know why more people don't use it

[Foxador]

Arc armor only helps against their harvesters if you're next to them in the front and they're targeting you

Otherwise it only helps against the Tesla towers which can sometimes be missed but they tend to stand out

It's basically a get out of jail free card against those two things, otherwise it's a waste

[Tahla]

Only if you get into very close range with harvesters and perhaps the observers (who die fast enough) do they attack with arc damage. There are also the arc towers in some illuminate bases, but same as with our arc tower, they won't target you when you're prone so you can just crawl past or blow them up without them ever shooting at you.