Colors On Damage

[Appius]

I've been playing for sometime now and I still don't completely understand the different colored numbers that pop up when damaging enemies (blue,yellow,gray)

I suppose gray means I'm doing Direct health damage? While blue means I'm eating away the enemies shield? What about yellow?

Oh and when an enemy dies a bold number pops up, what does that indicate? The dead enemies total health?

[AndryB94]

Blue: Damage to shields.
White/Gray: Normal damage (to health/armour)
Yellow: Critical or stealth (2x) damage.
Red: Stealth critical
Bold number: XP gained.

Credits to Smith0rz for the small edit regarding red/yellow damage. :P

Edited April 25, 2013 by AndryB94

[vasRayya]

Yellow is crit damage, you're on about everything else.

[Yorinar]

white: normal

yellow: high/crit damage

red: omghax damage

[Appius]

Blue: Shield.

White/Gray: Normal damage.

Yellow: I -THINK- it means you're hitting an enemy's weakspot, for example the head. If not, it means critical.

Bold number: XP gained.

  

Yellow is crit damage, you're on about everything else.

Thnx for the info ^^

[HeatHunter]

white: normal

yellow: high/crit damage

red: omghax damage

 

whats omghax damage?

 

I normally see red dmg numbers when I attack an enemy out of stealth in the back...

[Tulzscha]

Those would be "super" criticals. That's because attacking in stealth mode (Loki/Ash) makes every hit a critical (yellow) with an increased chance of doing super criticals as well.

[Dr.KennethNoiswater]

Those would be "super" criticals. That's because attacking in stealth mode (Loki/Ash) makes every hit a critical (yellow) with an increased chance of doing super criticals as well.

 

 

Actually the way I understood it, loki and ash just get a damage buff when invisible (not a true critical as from what I can tell it's not affected by +critical damage% mods) that shows as a yellow hit and the red signifies a true "crit" on top of that additional unaware strike damage.

 

I could be wrong but I seem to consistently hit for 450+270 with my heat swords on a charged strike while invisibility is active regardless of crit mods.

[Smith0rz]

Yellow damage = Critical OR Stealth damage. Stealth Damage is not crit damage, and is a flat 2x damage.

Red Damage = Critical while doing stealth damage

[AndryB94]

Yellow damage = Critical OR Stealth damage. Stealth Damage is not crit damage, and is a flat 2x damage.

Red Damage = Critical while doing stealth damage

What he said. I'll edit my comment to reflect that.

[Dr.KennethNoiswater]

Yellow damage = Critical OR Stealth damage. Stealth Damage is not crit damage, and is a flat 2x damage.

Red Damage = Critical while doing stealth damage

 

 

Lol, just my luck. I say the same thing one minute earlier and you get all the credit. 

 

One thing to note, I believe the 200% bonus only applies to charge strikes during stealth while normal strikes receive 150%.