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'''Elements''' (also called properties or attributes) are a property carried by every player and monster, and by most attacks. They strengthen, weaken, or nullify damage when an attacking element meets a defending element.

There are ten elements: '''Neutral''', '''Water''', '''Earth''', '''Fire''', '''Wind''', '''Poison''', '''Holy''', '''Shadow''', '''Ghost''', and '''Undead'''. Some attacks — most monster melee hits — carry no element at all and are called '''non-elemental'''; they ignore every elemental modifier entirely.

Elements come in two roles. Every player and monster has a '''defending element''', which determines how much damage they take from each attacking element; players additionally have an '''attacking element''' on their weapon, spells, and certain skills. A player's own element is Neutral by default and can be changed by equipping elemental weapons/armor, certain skills or items, or Elemental cards. Monsters only carry a defending element, but many of their skills attack with a specific element regardless of their own.

Defending elements come in four '''levels''': the resistances and weaknesses of a defending element grow more extreme the higher its level, while attacking elements are not leveled. A player's own defending element is always Level 1; monster defending element level varies per monster.

== Reading the tables ==
Pick the '''row''' for the defender's element and level, then the '''column''' for the attacker's element, to get the damage multiplier. Example: a Level 1 Ghost-defending target hit by a Neutral-element attack takes '''75%''' damage (a 25% reduction).

== Elemental table ==

''Columns are the attacking element; rows are the defending element. All values are % of damage dealt.''

=== Level 1 ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Defense \ Attack !! Neutral !! Water !! Earth !! Fire !! Wind !! Poison !! Holy !! Shadow !! Ghost !! Undead
|-
! Neutral
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 75% || 100%
|-
! Water
| 100% || 25% || 100% || 50% || 175% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100%
|-
! Earth
| 100% || 100% || 25% || 150% || 50% || 125% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100%
|-
! Fire
| 100% || 150% || 50% || 25% || 100% || 125% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100%
|-
! Wind
| 100% || 50% || 150% || 100% || 25% || 125% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100%
|-
! Poison
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 0% || 100% || 50% || 100% || 50%
|-
! Holy
| 100% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 0% || 125% || 75% || 100%
|-
! Shadow
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 75% || 125% || 0% || 75% || 0%
|-
! Ghost
| 25% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 125% || 100%
|-
! Undead
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 125% || 100% || 75% || 150% || -25% || 100% || 0%
|}

=== Level 2 ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Defense \ Attack !! Neutral !! Water !! Earth !! Fire !! Wind !! Poison !! Holy !! Shadow !! Ghost !! Undead
|-
! Neutral
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 50% || 100%
|-
! Water
| 100% || 0% || 100% || 25% || 175% || 75% || 100% || 100% || 75% || 75%
|-
! Earth
| 100% || 100% || 0% || 175% || 25% || 125% || 100% || 100% || 75% || 75%
|-
! Fire
| 100% || 175% || 25% || 0% || 100% || 125% || 100% || 100% || 75% || 75%
|-
! Wind
| 100% || 25% || 175% || 100% || 0% || 125% || 100% || 100% || 75% || 75%
|-
! Poison
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 0% || 100% || 25% || 75% || 25%
|-
! Holy
| 100% || 50% || 50% || 50% || 50% || 75% || -25% || 150% || 50% || 125%
|-
! Shadow
| 100% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 150% || -25% || 50% || 0%
|-
! Ghost
| 50% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 75% || 100% || 100% || 150% || 100%
|-
! Undead
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 150% || 100% || 50% || 175% || -50% || 125% || 0%
|}

=== Level 3 ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Defense \ Attack !! Neutral !! Water !! Earth !! Fire !! Wind !! Poison !! Holy !! Shadow !! Ghost !! Undead
|-
! Neutral
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 25% || 100%
|-
! Water
| 100% || -25% || 100% || 0% || 200% || 50% || 100% || 100% || 50% || 50%
|-
! Earth
| 100% || 100% || 0% || 200% || 0% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 50% || 50%
|-
! Fire
| 100% || 200% || 0% || -25% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 50% || 50%
|-
! Wind
| 100% || 0% || 200% || 100% || -25% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 50% || 50%
|-
! Poison
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 0% || 125% || 0% || 50% || 0%
|-
! Holy
| 100% || 25% || 25% || 25% || 25% || 50% || -50% || 175% || 25% || 150%
|-
! Shadow
| 100% || 50% || 50% || 50% || 50% || 50% || 175% || -50% || 25% || 0%
|-
! Ghost
| 0% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 50% || 100% || 100% || 175% || 100%
|-
! Undead
| 100% || 125% || 75% || 175% || 100% || 25% || 200% || -75% || 150% || 0%
|}

=== Level 4 ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Defense \ Attack !! Neutral !! Water !! Earth !! Fire !! Wind !! Poison !! Holy !! Shadow !! Ghost !! Undead
|-
! Neutral
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 0% || 100%
|-
! Water
| 100% || -50% || 100% || 0% || 200% || 25% || 75% || 75% || 25% || 25%
|-
! Earth
| 100% || 100% || 0% || 200% || 0% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 25% || 25%
|-
! Fire
| 100% || 200% || 0% || -50% || 100% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 25% || 25%
|-
! Wind
| 100% || 0% || 200% || 100% || -50% || 75% || 75% || 75% || 25% || 25%
|-
! Poison
| 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 0% || 125% || 25% || 25% || -25%
|-
! Holy
| 100% || 0% || 0% || 0% || 0% || 25% || -100% || 200% || 0% || 175%
|-
! Shadow
| 100% || 25% || 25% || 25% || 25% || 25% || 200% || -100% || 0% || 0%
|-
! Ghost
| 0% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 100% || 25% || 100% || 100% || 200% || 100%
|-
! Undead
| 100% || 150% || 50% || 200% || 100% || 0% || 200% || -100% || 175% || 0%
|}

== Custom changes from vanilla Ragnarok ==

Vortex Legends tunes a handful of cells away from the values other Ragnarok servers use:

* '''Earth self-damage fixed.''' Earth attacking an Earth-elemental target used to sit at a flat 100% regardless of level, unlike Water, Fire, and Wind, which all weaken sharply against their own element. Earth now follows the same curve as the other three: 25% at Level 1, 0% from Level 2 onward.
* '''Poison buffed further against Holy and Shadow at Level 4.''' Poison attacking a Level 4 Holy or Shadow defender deals 25% instead of the usual 50%.
* '''Ghost tuned down against Neutral.''' Ghost attacking a Neutral-elemental target (the most common case, since most players and monsters default to Neutral) deals less than the stock value at every level: 75% / 50% / 25% / 0% for Levels 1–4, instead of the sharper drop-off other servers use.

These changes are already reflected in the tables above.

<div style="border-left:4px solid #f0a500;background:#fffbf0;padding:.6em 1em;margin:1em 0;border-radius:0 6px 6px 0;font-size:.92em;color:#6b5500;">⚠️ A further change is planned but not yet live: flooring every negative multiplier in the tables above to 0%, so no elemental matchup can ever heal the target. The negative values still shown above (mostly same-element attacks at Level 3–4, and a few Undead/Holy/Shadow matchups) are current, unmodified behavior.</div>

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