Elemental damage and reactions

Six elements, each with a direct damage type and a status it leaves behind. Put the right two statuses on the same target and they react — consuming both and firing off something much larger.

The six elements

Element	Direct damage	Status it leaves
Fire	Fire	Burn — damage over time
Water	Water	Wet — status only
Cold	Cold	Freeze — slows by 50%
Electro	Electro	Shock — status only
Air	Air	Weathered — status only
Earth	Earth	Rooting — status only

Beyond the six there is also Poison, which deals damage over time, and Petrification, which is a magical status rather than an elemental one.

The six reactions

When two specific statuses are active on the same target, they react: both are consumed at once and the damage scales with how much duration each of them had left. The longer both had to run, the harder it lands.

Shock

Electro + Water

Both statuses are consumed instantly
Deals burst Electro damage equal to Electro DPS × (Electro remaining + Wet remaining)

All the remaining tick damage from both statuses, converted into one burst.

Achievement Shock Therapy

Frostbite

Cold + Air

Both statuses are consumed instantly
Cold damage split across 3 rapid ticks over ~0.5s, totalling Cold DPS × (Cold remaining + Air remaining)
Explodes in an area, hitting nearby enemies with Cold and Freeze

A cold explosion: it detonates the buildup and splashes the cold onto everything around.

Achievement Wind Chill

Burnout

Fire + Air

Both statuses are consumed instantly
Fire damage split across 3 rapid ticks over ~0.5s, totalling Fire DPS × (Fire remaining + Air remaining)
Explodes in an area, re-applying Burn to nearby enemies

Frostbite's fire twin — and it spreads the burn rather than just dealing it.

Achievement Total Burnout

Freeze

Cold + Water

Both statuses are consumed instantly
The target is frozen solid: animation stops, movement disabled, the model turns to ice
Lasts for Cold remaining + Wet remaining
Strike damage is doubled against a frozen target
Killing it while frozen shatters it into ice instead of a death animation

Hard crowd control. It cannot move or attack, and takes double Strike damage while it stands there.

Bosses cannot be frozen.

Achievement Frozen Solid

Rooting

Earth + Water

Both statuses are consumed instantly
The target is rooted: movement disabled, but it can still attack
Lasts for Earth remaining + Wet remaining
Deals immediate Earth damage equal to Earth DPS × total duration × 0.5

Locks the enemy in place and hits it once. Unlike Freeze, it can still fight back.

Bosses cannot be rooted.

Achievement Deep Roots

Extinguish

Fire meets Water or Cold

Every involved status is cancelled — Fire, Wet, Cold and the Frozen state
No damage at all: this reaction only nullifies

Water and Cold cancel Fire, and it works both ways. You cannot hold Fire and Water or Cold on a target at once.

Achievement Boiling Point

Elemental resistance

Enemies — and you — carry hidden secondary health bars, one per element. An elemental attack has to chew through the matching bar before its status will stick at all.

While the bar still has anything left, the status is blocked outright. Once it reaches zero, the status applies normally. The bars regenerate at 0.1 per second after a two-second delay, and refill completely once the status they were guarding against wears off.

So an enemy with a lot of Fire health is not resistant to fire damage — it is resistant to catching fire. You have to break through before burn will apply at all.

Opposing elements heal each other's resistance

While a status ticks, it passively repairs the resistance bar of its opposite. Stacking one element therefore makes its counterpart harder to land — which is the main reason a mixed-element build can fight itself.

Active status	Heals resistance to	Rate
Burning	Cold resistance	+10% per tick
Wet	Fire resistance	+10% per tick
Wet	Air resistance	+10% per tick
Freeze	Fire resistance	+10% per tick
Weathered	Earth resistance	+10% per tick
Weathered	Water resistance	+10% per tick
Rooting	Poison resistance	+10% per tick

Two more things worth knowing

Petrification is a magical status, not an elemental one — Medusa is the enemy you will meet it on. A petrified target stops animating and cannot move, and while it lasts all elemental damage against it is set to zero. Killing something petrified shatters it into stone.

With the Perfect Block Elemental defence mastery active, a perfect block completely negates any elemental status the blocked attack would have applied — fire, electro, water, cold, air, earth and poison alike.

How Perfect Block is unlocked, and everything else blocking does