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How to read the sensitivity strip

Eight bars under a creature or hunt — and the last one means something else.

This is where the ranking underneath it comes from: if you want to know why a weapon is on top, the answer is usually a bar. Seven rows are damage types. The eighth is armor, and it means something different — which is where most misreadings start.

The seven damage rows

• A percentage is how much damage gets through, so higher is better for you — the opposite of how resistance is usually written.
• 100% is neutral. Above it the creature is weak to that element; below it, resistant.
• 0% is absolute immunity. Not "very resistant" — nothing gets through, and no piercing opens it.
• Some creatures are healed by an element. The row says so and the weapon rows repeat it, because it is the difference between a slow kill and one you cannot finish.

The armor row

• An absolute value, not a percentage. There is no armor value that does nothing to your damage except zero, so there is no neutral to mark.
• Its colours are inverted, on purpose. Green means "you deal more damage here" everywhere else on the panel, and more armor means less — so a heavily armoured creature is red.
• A dash and an empty bar are not a zero. Nobody has recorded that creature's armor — 139 of them, and neither wiki has the figure.
• Armor subtracts where everything else multiplies, which is why penetration is a term of its own: a flat subtraction costs a small hit proportionally far more than a large one.

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