Damage Cap

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

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This article is about the damage cap of various battle actions. For the status effects and weapon skills, see Damage Cap Up.

The damage cap is an upper limit on how much damage can be dealt in various circumstances. It is not necessarily a final limit—damage values seem to fluctuate around the soft cap rather than hitting a specific value ceiling, but they cannot significantly surpass it without effects that specifically raise the soft damage cap. Normal attack, charge attacks, and skills have various soft caps based on the source. Damage cap values can be found on this page in the sections below.

There are various ways to temporarily increase the damage cap, such as with the DMG Cap UpMaximum amount of DMG that can be dealt per hit is boosted
buff or with weapon skills. Assassin buffs are notable for increasing ATK while also significantly increasing normal attack damage.

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 hard cap where damage will no longer increase even when utilizing buffs and debuffs. In general, this point is just below 13 million or 6.6 million 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).

Normal Attack Damage Cap

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

Examples
Raw Damage"Raw Damage" is the damage before the reduction thresholds are calculated	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

Standard

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%

• Includes Main Character
• Unaffected by character or mainhand rarity
• 3m raw DMG would thus be corrected to 1.69m DMG.
• Source: gbf-wiki.com

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.

6★ Eternals Characters

• Upon acquiring first stage Transcendence, the Eternal's charge attack cap is further raised to ~2.30 million.

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%
Weapon Awakening Damage Cap Up
Normal Sentence / Glory	75%	75%
Omega Sentence	75%
Excelsior	75%
Ultima Gauph Key γ / Dark Opus γ Pendulum	15%
Harbinger of the Dark Sunrise	20%
Rightway Pathfinder II	30%
Weapon Awakening C.A. Damage Cap Up	75%

• Boosting the Special C.A. Damage Cap allows charge attacks to surpass the "hard cap" of 6.6 or 13.1 million, depending on the raid.

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 caps are specific to each skill and its level of upgrade when applicable.
• They can be further boosted by Weapon Skills, character and classes' Extended Mastery Perk's Skill Damage Cap Bonus nodes, Over Mastery Bonuses' Skill DMG Cap bonus, Qilin's Aura, certain characters' Support Skills, and buffs such as Skill DMG Cap UpMaximum amount of skill DMG that can be dealt per hit is boosted
  and Skill DMG Cap Up (Stackable)Maximum amount of skill DMG that can be dealt per hit is boosted (Stackable)
  .

Boosts From Weapon Skills

• Skill Damage Cap Boosted weapon skills stack additively up to a combined cap of 100%.
  • Gauph Key β (50%), β Pendulum (50%), Astral Arts II (10%-50%), and Astral Pierce II (10%-50%) are mutually exclusive.

Skill	Cap Boost	Maximum Cap Boost
Tempering Inferno's Tempering Hoarfrost's Tempering Terra's Tempering Whirlwinds' Tempering Zion's Tempering Oblivion's Tempering	5.5%13.75% with one 5★ Optimus Series Summon Agni Varuna Titan Zephyrus Hades Zeus aura. 22% with two 5★ Optimus Series Summons Agni Varuna Titan Zephyrus Hades Zeus auras. 23.1% with two 5★ Optimus Series Summons Agni Varuna Titan Zephyrus Hades Zeus auras and 3★ Six Dragons Series Summon Wilnas (Summon) Galleon (Summon) Ewiyar (Summon) 's sub aura.	100%
Proximo's Two-Sword Tech	10%
V.A.R.I.S.'s Yes, My Lord!	10%
Elemental Arts Scarlet Arts Cobalt Arts Amber Arts Jade Arts Golden Arts Graphite Arts	(Up to) 20%
Qilin Lyre's Harbinger of the Dusk of Nightfall	20%
Wasserspeier's Dual Blade's Humanity	20%
Maverick's Shadowhound's Humanity	20%
Demonic Longstaff's Arcanist's Humanity	20%
Hercules' Slayer of Immortals II	20%
Flamma Orbis's Sunveil's Crown	30%
Ultima Weapons' Scandere Facultas	(Up to) 50%
Dark Opus Weapons' β Revelation
Yggdrasil's Bough's Astral Arts II
Rhongomyniad's Astral Pierce II