If Vanaduke was undead, Blitz would do 154. On a fiend, it does 354 - 81.5 = 272 (it's rounded down) The raw damage for Blitz Needle at D28 is 354. (This is why poison is so effective against the big man, by the way.) So what does this mean? Well, let's look at the fan favourite Blitz Needle. At depth 28, a regular fiend has about 81.5 piercing defence and 163 normal/elemental defence. Vanaduke has exactly 150 piercing defence and 200 normal/elemental defence. It works no different than it does for knights. He has a slight resistance to elemental.'įacts-man to the rescue! The game doesn't actually have such a thing as 'weakness', only different amounts of defence. 'He only has a slight weakness to pierce. (Actually Lord Vanaduke does take extra damage from Undead UVs.however in his resistances he is VERY different from Undead) Lord Vanaduke is somewhat a cross between Fiends and Undead' fiend abilities, so in actuality, he is still typeless. He still does not take extra damage from bonus damage vs. This means that Vanaduke was never Undead to begin with.

'According to the new UI, Lord Vanaduke is considered a Fiend. In view of this and of his backstory (which never expressly says that he died), it is possible that Lord Vanaduke may be a Trojanesque fiend monster rather than a truly undead being.'Īnd then after the new UI change they added this to the wiki. He does not, however, share the same resistances or weaknesses as common undead, and even has more in common with that of a fiend in his body forms, as he is weak to piercing in these forms. I keep seeing this battle go from bad to worse weekly, and its so bad now the fireball between fights with Vanaduke are randomly reactivating when it is made vulnerable with water. 'Lord Vanaduke does not actually belong to any monster family, although his lore leads to the belief that he may be undead.

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