How to Manage Elemental Damage in Enotria: The Last Song

Elemental damage in Enotria: The Last Song doesn’t quite work how you would expect. It’s both a more important part of the game and only a prelude to the status effects that dominate certain combat encounters. Preparing a build that can reliably take advantage of elemental damage can be a daunting task, but don’t worry. Here’s how to manage elemental damage in Enotria: The Last Song.

Managing Elemental Damage in Enotria

There are four kinds of elemental damage in Enotria: Vis, Malanno, Gratia, and Fatuo. Each is connected to a unique status effect, while also acting as classic elemental damage. Deal enough Vis damage to a character weak to it to inflict more damage as well as giving them the Dizzy status effect.

Most enemies won’t simply be weak to a certain element. Instead, they’ll have a connection to a certain element. The element itself will be strong against some and weak against others. If you’ve ever played the Pokémon or Fire Emblem series, you know what this means. Water wins against Fire but loses against Grass. A Sword has an advantage against an Axe and a disadvantage against a Lance.

Enotria’s elements are best visualized as a four-way Rock Paper Scissors, as you can see in the screenshot above. Their relation is as follows: Vis beats Malanno, which beats Gratia, which beats Fatuo, which beats Vis. The elements not directly connected (Vis and Gratia; Malanno and Fatuo) have no special advantage or disadvantage.

How to Maximize Elemental Damage in Enotria

Maximizing elemental damage in Enotria isn’t hard. You just have to have a way to imbue your weapon with elemental damage and high stats in that element. Simply equip a weapon with a high damage in your chosen element and use the Innovation that gives elemental damage to your weapon when you use the right Mask Line.

For example, let’s say you want to maximize Malanno. You’ll equip a weapon with high Malanno (say, the Silver Wasp). Then you’ll add the Malanno Path Innovation and a fast-loading Mask Line to the fourth slot. Every time you use the fourth slot, you’ll imbue your weapon with Malanno. If possible, you’ll want to increase Status Power. This stat controls the effectiveness of status effects, not elemental damage, but the two are so interconnected that you might as well use them.

Maximizing all Elemental Damage in Enotria

Specializing in one kind of elemental damage is easy, but being a generalist is far more rewarding. Thanks to the multi-character system you don’t even have to abandon your one-element build.

I found that mixing one character that’s very efficient in one element with a jack-of-all-trades elementalist and a no-magic melee build takes care of most challenges just fine. Your general elementalist should have the Innovations and Mask Lines to imbue your weapon with every element except that of your specialist. They should also carry one weapon with decent ratings in all those elements, or better yet, two weapons with great ratings.

Make sure to equip some Innovations that make Mask Lines load faster, since that’s how you activate elemental damage. I would suggest you add the State of Harmony Innovation, too, which makes elemental infusions last longer. One last tip: this might sound weird, but I found it useful to write down which Mask Line leads to which elemental damage. You’ll always find which elements beat which on the screen, but you might forget how you activate that element.

That’s all for our guide on how to manage elemental damage in Enotria: The Last Song. For more guides about the game, visit our Enotria guide hub.