Normal, Piercing, Elemental, or Shadow? What is the most common Damage type in Tier 1 Clockworks? Tier 2 Clockworks? Tier 3 Clockworks? Danger Rooms specifically? Tier 1 Lockdown? Tier 2 Lockdown? Tier 3 Lockdown? Other?
So...
Tier 1 (Clockworks): Normal
Tier 2 (Clockworks): Normal
Tier 3 (Clockworks): Normal, then Elemental
Tier 1 (Lockdown): Normal
Tier 2 (Lockdown): Normal
Tier 3 (Lockdown): Normal, Piercing
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Let me explain:
T2 Everything deals half normal, not much to say about that.
T3 Many attacks still deal half normal. Elemental comes from status attacks, like traps and maybe cosntructs, the most common enemy.
About lockdown, it's a complicated mix. Pierce swords sure are the most popular weapon but i wouldn't disregard everything else.
Tier 1 (Clockworks): Normal: All monsters are forced to deal normal.
Tier 2 (Clockworks): Normal: Damage is split between normal and whatever type the monster is. For example, the beast family does piercing, so it would be split between piercing and normal, so yeah, everything does normal damage at T2...
Tier 3 (Clockworks): ???: T3 depends on the stratum because most monsters are going to do pure elemental, shadow, normal or piercing damage. Some monsters do have that split but the majority do specialized damage.
Tier 1 (Lockdown): Normal/elemental: just a guess, i'm just guessing this because there are people with hot/static edges.
Tier 2 (Lockdown): Everything: Shock, Fire, and ice burst brandishes, night blade, twisted snarble barb. I've seen all types of swords used in all the
matches I've played.
Tier 3 (Lockdown): Everything: Gran Faust, Divine Avenger, and Final Flourish are the ones that are most commonly used so it's a good mix, same as T2 only with more OHKO's.
(really I'm not sure about lockdown but defense doesn't make a huge difference)
It sounds like you're trying to prepare for clockworks with one set of armor, which is a bad idea because it's impossible. Almost all of the armor and helms have normal defense split with something else so you won't have to worry about a set of armor with normal defense. Let's say you go out with armor with only normal defense in T2, you're still vulnerable to piecing, elemental, and shadow, which you WILL encounter no matter what gate you're at. but if you take your Wolver set then you only have to worry about elemental and shadow damage.
TLDR; You prepare for the stratum, and need will more than one set of armor.
Wolver is the most popular for pirceing (and in general),
Demo or Magic for elemental
Skelly for shadow although i like Angelic better.
Interesting. I guess because Tiers 2 & 3 Lockdown varies greatly depending on each player's preferences which often change over time, the "most common Damage" dealt will always be different.
Always normal, even in T3, second place goes to elemental. This is for random levels, of course it could change iif only doing bosses (T2 jelly is more normal/pierce and little elemental).
In lockdown, pierce wins.