Damage Cap

Attack Types: Normal Attack | Critical Attack | Charge Attack
Other Damage Types: Plain Damage | Bonus Damage | Supplemental Damage
Damage Formula: Basic Concepts | Detailed Formula | Damage Cap | Examples and Guidelines

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The damage cap is an upper limit on how much damage can be dealt in various circumstances. It is not a hard limit - damage values seem to fluctuate around the perceived cap rather than hitting a specific value ceiling, but they cannot significantly surpass it. In general, normal attack damage is capped to 440,000 (440k) damage and Charge Attack damage is capped to 1,650,000 (1.65M) damage. 5★ Eternals have a higher cap Charge Attack cap at 2,020,000 (2.02M). Lyria (Event) also has an unusually high charge attack cap of ~2,150,000. Each character skill also has a damage cap, but the cap varies based on the individual skill.

The 1.65M value is a final damage cap - if a charge attack involves multiple hits during the animation, the final total will not significantly surpass 1.65M. However, normal multiattacks are each separate, so each hit in a triple attack can deal 440k damage. Bonus "echo" damage also is counted separately from normal attacks (see: Warlock's Chaser or Narmaya's Butterfly Effect), so it does not contribute towards the cap.

There are various ways to temporarily increase the damage cap, such as the Kaguya summon or Ferry's Grausam. Most notably, the Hawkeye skill Crack Shot II and similar Break Assassin or OD Assassin skills raise the normal attack damage cap to 1.16M. This means end-game team building is increasingly focused on increasing multiattack rate in order to circumvent damage caps.

Some weapon skills and support skills (most notably Seraphic Weapons) can also raise the damage cap if conditions are met. Conversely, enemies with elemental resistances such as Xeno Showdown bosses take a lower damage cap (up to 50% less) for any element other than their weakness.

Besides the damage cap described above, there is a certain point where damage will no longer increase even when utilising buffs and debuffs. In general, this point is just below 13,000,000 (13M) or 6,600,000 (6.6M) depending on boss difficulty, but this can be lower for certain foes (e.g. the Campaign-Exclusive Quest is known to have a cap of 30,000 (30K).

Normal Attack Damage Cap

Damage	Reduction
0 - 300k	0%
300k - 400k	20%
400k - 500k	40%
500k - 600k	95%
600k -	99%

Examples
Raw Damage	Actual Damage
300k	300k
400k	380k
500k	440k
600k	445k
1m	449k

• Source

Normal Attack Damage Cap Up

• Ultima Gauph Key α, Dark Opus α Pendulum, and
  
  Astral WeaponsVerification needed.
  • Fateless
  • Innocent Love
  • Claws of Terror
  do not stack with each other.

• Other boost to damage cap weapon skills stack additively with each other up to a maximum of 20%.

C.A. Damage Cap

Normal Characters

Damage	Reduction	Normal
0 - 1.50m	0%	1.50m
1.50m - 1.70m	40%	1.62m
1.70m - 1.80m	70%	1.65m
1.80m - 2.50m	95%	1.685m
2.50m -	99%

• Source
• 3m raw DMG would thus be corrected to 1.69m DMG.

5★ Eternals Characters

Damage	Reduction	Normal
0 - 1.80m	0%	1.80m
1.80m - 2.00m	40%	1.92m
2.00m - 2.20m	70%	1.98m
2.20m - 3.00m	95%	2.02m
3.00m -	99%

• 5m raw DMG would thus be corrected to 2.04m DMG.

C.A. Damage Cap Up

• C.A. Cap Up skills can be combined across different sources.

Skill	Cap	Shared Cap	Total Cap
Damage Cap Up	20%		95%
Ultima Gauph Key γ / Dark Opus γ Pendulum	15%
Harbinger of the Dark Sunrise	20%
Normal Sentence / Glory	75%	75%
Omega Sentence	75%
Excelsior	75%
Rightway Pathfinder II	30%

Chain Burst Damage Cap

2 Chain

Damage	Reduction	Normal
0 - 1.00m	0%	1.00m
1.00m - 1.20m	40%	1.12m
1.20m - 1.30m	70%	1.15m
1.30m - 1.50m	95%	1.16m
1.50m -	99%

3 Chain

Damage	Reduction	Normal
0 - 1.25m	0%	1.25m
1.25m - 1.45m	40%	1.37m
1.45m - 1.50m	70%	1.385m
1.50m - 2.00m	95%	1.41m
2.0m -	99%

4 Chain

Damage	Reduction	Normal
0 - 1.50m	0%	1.50m
1.50m - 1.70m	40%	1.62m
1.70m - 1.80m	70%	1.65m
1.80m - 2.50m	95%	1.685m
2.50m -	99%

Skill Damage Cap

Skill Damage Cap Up

• Skill DMG Cap Up weapon skills stack additively, but are subject to both individual and shared caps depending on group.

Skill	Cap	Shared Cap	Current Max
Elemental Arts Scarlet Arts Cobalt Arts Amber Arts Jade Arts Golden Arts Graphite Arts	40%	40%	110%
Yes, My Lord!	10%
Two-Sword Tech	10%
Dual Blade's Humanity	20%
Shadowhound's Humanity	20%
Arcanist's Humanity	20%
Harbinger of the Dusk of Nightfall	20%
Sunveil's Crown	30%
Gauph Key β	50%	50%
β Pendulum	50%
Astral WeaponsVerification needed. Yggdrasil's Bough Rhongomyniad	50%
Damage Cap Up	20%