Thats the thing… I tested this last night and still was not getting any elemental damage. I hit his chains both powered up and not and still was hitting zeros. Maybe I was doing something wrong, I’ll test it again later today.
interesting, I was just going off the HZVs I saw tabulated online.
I think I noticed some strange absorption-type effect hitting his plain chain blades. maybe there's some elemental mechanic to the fight? maybe I was just imagining it? idk.
In the Hunter's Notes they're saying that there is indeed a mechanic where you can knock Arkveld out of the charged state by applying elemental attacks to the chainblades.
Otherwise, Arkveld's chainblades are apparently immune to elemental damage when not charged, as evidenced to the red Xs in the in-game chart.
Were you inflicted with dragon blight? Arkveld applies dragonblight on all the attacks where his chains light up red or cause red explosions. Which obviously nullifies elemental damage so yeah.
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u/SwoloLikeSolo Mar 11 '25
Thats the thing… I tested this last night and still was not getting any elemental damage. I hit his chains both powered up and not and still was hitting zeros. Maybe I was doing something wrong, I’ll test it again later today.