Overview
How to tell whether your weapon does slash or strike damage, and which bosses are weak to which.
Does Your Weapon Do Slash or Strike Damage?
Some weapons do a slash damage, others do strike damage. The simple way to tell the difference is if your weapon makes a whoosh sound. If your weapon attack makes a sharp whoosh sound, it is doing slash damage, and a thud or no sound is strike damage. Keep in mind that one weapon can do both types of damage and your moveset can do different damage types. Quoting the wiki: “Weapions with blades typically do slash damage”. Keep in mind, however, that this isn’t always true.
Certain enemies are weaker to strike, some to slash. Take the bronze knights for example.
These knights have 100 strike defense, and 500 slash defense. They are more susceptible to blunt attacks.
Boss Weaknesses
Spoilers ahead, turn back if you dont want to be spoiled.
The Unspeakable Deep
Not really handy, but i’ll include it anyway. (You CAN kill this boss, but you have only one chance to do so at the beginning of a new character. There is an achievement for killing him)
100 strike defence
200 slash defence
0 elemental defence
Weakest to blunt and elemental attacks.
The Sodden Knight
“First” boss of the game.
0 strike defence
180 slash defence
-50 fire defence
150 poison defence
Weakest to fire and strike, resilient against slash damage and poison.
The Queen of Smiles
Second boss of the game.
250 strike defence
50 slash defence
-50 holy defence
50+ defence for elements other than holy
She is by far weakest to holy damage and slash damage.
The False Jester
Third boss, technically optional if you beat the Kraeken Cyclops first.
300 strike defence
0 slash defence
0 elemental defence
The False Jester is weak to slash and elemental damage.
Kraeken Cyclops
Technically optional, if you just beat the jester.
500 strike defence
0 slash defence
0 elemental defence
He is VERY resilient against strike damage, try slash and elemental damage.
The Mad Alchemist
Boss of the Watching Woods.
200 strike defence
50 slash defence
50 elemental defence
Weakest to slash and elemental damage.
Kraeken Wyrm
The boss of the castle of storms.
100 strike defence
250 slash defence
500 poison defence
50 elemental defence
The wyrm is weakest to elemental damage, and strike damage is better than slash.
Tree of Men
Boss of the Red Hall of Cages.
100 strike defence
500 slash defence
50 elemental damage
Weakest to elemental damage and strike damage.
The Untouched Inquisitor
First boss of the Dome of the Forgotten.
500 strike defence
0 slash defence
-50 fire + arcane defence
500 holy defence
50 lighting + poison defence
This boss is very weak to fire and arcane, and slash damage.
The Third Lamb
Second boss of the Dome of the Forgotten.
500 strike defence
-25 slash defence
-25 fire + arcane defence
900 poison defence
90 lightning + holy defence
Weakest to slash, fire and arcane damage.
Ronin Cran
Boss of the secret area Cran’s Pass.
80 strike defence
300 slash defence
25 elemental damage
Weakest to strike and all elemental damage.
The Disemboweled Husk
Boss of Hager’s Cavern.
500 strike defence
0 slash defence
0 fire defence
-20 holy defence
50 arcane + lightning defence
500 poison defence
Weakest to holy, followed by slas and fire damage.
That Stench Most Foul
Boss of Mire of Stench.
250 strike defence
50 slash defence
-50 fire + holy damage
50 lightning and arcane defence
90 poison defence
Weakest to fire and holy damage, as well as slash.
The Dried King
First boss of the Ziggurat of Dust.
50 strike defence
250 slash defence
-50 holy + arcane damage
50 fire + lightning defence
900 poison defence
Weak to holy, arcane, and strike damage.
The Bloodless Prince
Second boss of The Ziggurat of Dust.
600 strike defence
0 slash defence
0 elemental defence
500 poison defence
Weak to slash and elemental damage that isn’t poison.
The Coveted
Boss of the Ruined Temple.
0 strike defence
600 slash defence
-50 arcane defence
50 elemental defence
Weakest to strike and arcane damage.
Carsejaw the Cruel
Boss of the Pitchwoods.
0 strike defence
180 slash defence
-50 fire defence
150 poison defence
0 lightning + holy + arcane defence
Weak to strike and fire damage.
The Witch of the Lake
Boss of Siam Lake.
500 strike defence
50 slash defence
-50 fire + holy defence
50 lightning + arcane + poison defence
Weakest to fire, holy, and slash.
Murdiella Mal
Boss of the hidden area Mal’s Floating Castle.
100 strike defence
0 slash defence
0 elemental defence
Weak to slash and elemental damage.
The Unskinned
Boss of Salt Alkymancery.
500 strike defence
0 slash defence
-50 elemental damage
Very weak to elemental damage and slash.
The Architect
Accomanies the unskinned.
500 strike defence
0 slash defence
-50 arcane defence
250 fire + lightning + poison + holy defence
Weak to arcane and slash.
Kraekan Dragon Skourzh
Boss of the Crypt of the Dead Gods.
700 strike defence
100 slash defence
1000 lightning defence
100 elemental defence
Not particularly weak to anything, weakest to slash and elemental damage.
The Forgotten King
(and company)
0 strike defence
180 slash defence
-50 fire defence
150 poison defence
0 lightning + holy + arcane defence
Weak to fire and strike damage.
The knight is weakest to fire, the judge, arcane.
The Nameless God
Final boss.
0 strike defence
180 slash defence
500 elemental defence
Weak to strike damage.
Sources
Sources for my information taken directly from these wiki pages:
Bosses[saltandsanctuary.wiki.fextralife.com]
Weapons[saltandsanctuary.wiki.fextralife.com]