This is the post I previously promised to edit to contain my analysis. Why would I give you a cookie? Where would I get it from, my pockets? I keep lobsters in there, and they hate cookies. Why are you feeding cookies to my lobsters? Stop that silliness at once.

Before beginning with the enemies, we shall begin with the preface notes. According to the original post, normal damage is more effective on these enemies while somewhat resistant to all other types of damage (pierce, shadow, element) but takes double the damage it would normally from being resistant; instead of taking ~20% damage as a fully resistant family, it takes ~40% from everything except normal damage. This alone makes normal weapons more overpowered. If they were neutral to everything or somewhat resistant to everything it may be more fair, but giving further versatility to normal weapons defeats the purpose of specialized damage.

Gigantolisk

Oh no, a giant lizard! A giant Chromalisk, those things that just derp around all the time. Its "stomping" ability deals normal damage for moving. Balancing this relies on details on the size of the giant lizard and how large the stomping area covers. The leaping attack is inconsistent with how the lizards work, cloaking and sneaking up on knights to ambush; it is not easy for a giant lizard to sneak around. Flailing its tongue also requires the area covered by the attack to balance its mechanic including the knockback it has.

Tortrodone

"Herp but no one who started after beta knows what this thing is or how it works derp."

Drake

Another lizard of death. The size of these enemies is significant to balancing its attack mechanics. I assume the flurry of slashes is assumed to be akin to the charge attack on the Wild Hunting Blade but with different animations. Either it completely negates the status or it takes it regularly; or it has special effects as status relevant jellies do. This thing seems to behave more like an advanced Wolver.

Rook
Yay, more Chess references; even though Trojans are based on the Trojan horse used to infiltra- Never mind that, this is not a time for history. It is a time for science. Science and pineapples. No, stop that, get that thing out of here. This is a time for science. And no pineapples. The punch offers a taste of past swivel turning mechanics which Wolvers and zombies had, allowing them to swivel in place during their attack animation as they wished. The stomp-crack-quake seems similar to the Trojan smashing attack but without the actual smash by sword potentially traveling a further distance. The charge attack seems overpowered, but then again, Trojans already do it; the difference is now a giant enemy is copying them. This thing has a lot of stun. I am not going to comment on your bias towards the Plate and Troika lines.

Mechanical Behemoth
What time is it?

No one will get this. It only makes sense if you watch Wakfu.

On a relevant note this sounds familiar.

I would laugh forever if they implemented that in this game. For those who do not know what it is, the above image is an enemy in Pikmin which literally does nothing but stomp around and shake its center body every once in a while. It does not necessarily stomp on the Pikmin intentionally, though they tend to rush the feet until the player notices attacking the feet does nothing. Yellow Pikmin all the way. Is this going to spark a series of Pikmin related enemies? That would be hilarious.

Go fight vanadukes mask and leave us alone.

Normal damage is useful to everything, for those who don't know how to properly prepare for a run, just get a bunch of boring normal weps.

Lev is pretty overpowered with its charge ya know...

Congrats Tsu, you have put me off the though of getting a levi, after I got my ascended cali to level ten of heat so I could upgrade it to a levi.

/cry

You want BAMs?

For reference, http://tera.wikia.com/wiki/Big-Ass_Monsters

I'd love to fight some huge monsters.

And yes, FoV's charge is godlike compared to Leviathan. Just be glad the normal Levi attacks are good and the FoV ones are not.

Meanwhile I'll hit Vana's mask for 500x4 damage with a FoV charge.

And think of the epics from spore. Just normal monsters but ten times the size health and attack

Tsu's just ranting about normie damage again. MEH.

:P

Specific (pierce, element, shadow) deal approximately 20% of their neutral damage to enemies resistant and 140% to enemies weak to the type of damage. In two hits, one on a weak enemy and one on a resistant enemy, the specific damage weapon deals approximately 160% total damage. A normal damage weapon would deal 200% because 100% * 2 = 200%, 1 * 2 = 2, and normal deals consistent damage to all families. It has substantial versatility.

This has nothing to do with the enemy concept, I am still preoccupied; this is just for the neutral versus specialized damage argument. No, Wakfu is not what is distracting me this time. I will give you a hint. What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree, and is very dangerous?