Lootbound Damage Types

The type lives on the grid, not the portrait

Sliding one aura cell can flip a Slash neighborhood toward Crush. An unequipped shape is not a type. Pack first: inventory. Neighbor rules: auras.

You still only click the hero

Companions resolve the type you seated on their own board. A Witch Acid poke is an automatic pip, not a second hotbar. Turn order: combat.

The next section is the chart — five names, one job each.

Five names, two bars

Slash and Acid both want Health. Crush wants the shield in front of it. Chaos wants a status already on the target. Base is the generic hit that works on every body and never wins a specialization contest.

Do not clone the same row three times

Three Slash grids on a plated elite is three people hitting a wall. Cover Crush or Acid on someone — usually the first recruit. Party jobs: classes.

The chart only pays if you know which bar you are allowed to empty.

Spend armor, bank Health

Ending trash at 1 armor is fine if you are alive — the shield comes back. Ending trash at critical Health is a run leak. Acid is dangerous in both directions: it skips their plate, and their Acid skips yours.

Initiative is how you pick the layer

Going first lets Crush strip a plate before a slasher swings, or lets Acid delete a buffer before it auras the pack. Exact thresholds stay TBA. The habit does not: read the bar, then pick the type.

Once the two layers are clear, the common stall is Slash into plates.

Warrior wants the finish, not the wall

Warrior kits lean Slash, crit, and vampirism. Vampirism pays you for hitting Health, not for tapping armor. If plates keep showing up, the missing type belongs on the recruit — not as a second Slash clone. Lanes: builds.

One Crush body is enough

You do not need Crush on every grid. You need one reliable strip, then a slasher who acts while the plate is down. If you never found Crush, skip the strip entirely — that is Acid’s job.

Acid is the other answer to the same wall.

Acid is a Health attack that ignores the door

You still spend the run resource on their side. A long Acid fight that never kills still leaves your Health open. Pair it with Initiative so the skip lands before they swing, and with Mana discipline so the biome gate still sees a bar.

The Witch is the usual seat

Witch kits want Acid, Chaos, and Mana. Do not sprinkle Order onto that board. If the hero is all Slash, the first recruit should be this skip — not a second sword. Roles: classes.

Chaos is why that Acid kit is not just “green Slash.”

Chaos is not a fifth slasher

Stacking Chaos on a Warrior who never applies a status wastes the cells. The pane has to show a curse, a weakness, or an Acid interaction before Chaos is a damage plan. Exact curse names stay TBA.

One body, one direction

Mixing Order and Chaos on one grid is how a “support Paladin” also fails to curse. Split the party: one board blesses, one board hexes. Accessories that touch Initiative / Order / Chaos are the usual seats — treat named pieces as TBA.

The mid-page table is the click, not another definition.

The recruit is the type swap

You still only click the hero. The missing language is an automatic pip on another grid. If plates remain and the bench is a second Warrior, you drafted the stall.

Guardian parts inherit the same rule

Biome-end Boss Parts change how the final Guardian hits. A high-armor party can live with a reflect-style modifier; Acid ignores that soak. Part names stay TBA — bosses.

If the fight still dies, it is usually a process error, not a missing unique.

One habit that fixes most of them

Before the first click, name the bar that is blocking the kill. If it is armor, you need Crush or Acid. If it is Health, you need Slash or Base. Two seconds there prevents most empty mana bars at the biome gate.

When that is automatic, the next page is the Guardian those types have to kill.