Talk:Monster DR and weaknesses

what was wrong with latest edits? seems like you kinda reverted back your edits. --yoko5000 12:57, May 24, 2010 (EDT)

This was posted on My talk page in reference to that: i thank you for putting effort in making the wiki. however, its is not required to link every single thing in a wiki as you did with the monster DR and weakness thread. what we generally do is to just link once and subsequent words will not be linked. this prevent overkill and turning the entire page blue. if you could please revert the pages that you have done so --Aranticus 20:50, May 19, 2010 (EDT).

So, with that in mind, I changed a lot of it back. There were some changes that remained (For example, Mind Flayer was Mindflayer, and was creating a needless redlink. --Landar 8:33, May 26th, 2010 (EDT)

I'm just coming across this chart.. very nice! But for the uninformed (like myself) could some additional information be given about the headers? Especially, I have no idea what 'Special' and 'DR type' are supposed to refer to. Thank you!

Thank you for your input. If you feel there is some better way to develop this table, feel free to work on it. The table is to show what specific thing(s) overcome a particular Monster's DR. Therefore, "Special" means its not a physical, metal, or alignment type, but something different. "DR Type" is simple. "Either" means one, or the other, of the DR overcoming types listed, such as either silver, or either good, to overcome devils. Both means that both (or all) listed things must be on a weapon to "bust" the DR of the monster in question. Also, please sign your posts, thank you. --Landar 4:45, August 26, 2010 (EDT)

Someone without an account (IP address shown, of course) redid all the edits I'd reverted. The reason I'd reverted the edits are listed above in the first conversation. The amount of linkage on the page was considered overkill by a wiki edition senior to me. So, I've undone the two most recent changes of this page. --Landar 11:05, Nov 30, 2010 (EDT)

And... looks like we have another Editor to the page. Backley, Succubi in DDO are Devils, and Lawful Evil Outsiders. Also, all existing Succubi in game have DR/Good only, as far as I've been able to confirm. So, I've revised your portions on this. Also, if you read above, making the page a wall of blue text was specifically requested to be reverted - I've reverted it twice, I'll ask you to do your own reversions here. Landar 3:10, July 14, 2011 (EDT)

Succubi in DDO really are Chaotic Evil Outsider Devils in DDO, with DR/Cold Iron or Good. Tested this myself on the Succubus in The Weapons Shipment. Hadn't seen the note on duplicated links, I personally prefer every link and don't mind a sea of blue, but I've removed the extra ones in the DR Type column. I feel they are appropriate in the Class/Bane column. Backley 15:31, July 14, 2011 (EDT)

Facelift

This page could perhaps be reworked as Monster traits, to include immunities/vulnerabilities. It could also be simplified to replace all the hand-coded rows with pointers to Category:Monsters by trait, once that tree gets filled out. ⇒ Hoopy Froodle (Contribs • Message • Email) 12:12, April 13, 2018 (EDT)

Just a thought ...

As a Newbie, the table entries under DR are a bit irritating. For example, Abishai are listed with DR = good. As a Newbie, I'd interpretate this as : "damage reduction : good, means that good weapons don't do that much damage." I think it has something to do with the fact that the wording isn't that clear for beginners - the definition at the top of the article should make that more clearer for Newbies, what the abbreviation DR actually means and how it is used in this table. ⇒ Alrik (Contribs • Message • Email) 07:52, April 22, 2019 (EDT)

• Right there with ya, BUT... for better or worse, that's how D&D has always listed it, ever since tabletop, even if it's backwards from how many think (e.g. you and myself). The listed type of attack is the thing that breaks the DR. So, "DR 5/Evil" means that the creature/character has "DR 5 unless the attack is Evil", and the Korthos Spearbane bracers ("DR 4/Slash, Bludgeon") block 4 if the attack is Piercing, but not if it's Slashing or Bludgeoning. And so on. See Damage Reduction. ⇒ C-Hound (Contribs • Message • Email) 21:55, April 22, 2019 (EDT)

Summoned Fire Elemental

I added an entry for Summoned Fire Elemental, and changed the explanatory text to refer to it. I was confused, since the text suggested that Fire Elementals heal from fire, when their entry says they are merely immune. I think this is the explanation.

The wiki page does not mention DR, but I suspect that's an oversight. Need to confirm. ⇒ Hoopy Froodle (Contribs • Message • Email) 12:04, July 10, 2019 (EDT)