Shield Breaker is the type of Damage that is highly effective against shields of an enemy.

Shield Breaker damage floaties are white in color.

Mechanism

Shield Breaker damage can do 1x the damage mentioned in the details of any weapon or gear without considering additional bonuses and multipliers. However, when an enemy is under the Acid Status, the net damage becomes 1.25x. Targets weakened by support gear will receive 1.33x the damage. Enemies under both acid status and weakened through support will receive 1.67x the net damage.

Armored Targets

Shield Breaker is very weak towards Armored targets (yellow health) dealing 0.5x the damage mentioned in the statistics of Combat Equipment. If the target is under Acid Status, then the net damage done will be 0.63x. If additional weakening effects from support gears are considered, it can do 0.66x. If both Acid Status and weakening effects from the support is considered, the net damage will be 0.84x.

Shielded Targets

Shield Breaker is highly effective against Shielded targets (blue health) dealing 1.5x the damage mentioned in the statistics of the Combat Equipment. If additional weakening effect from supports are considered, then the net damage will be 2x. Shielded targets cannot be primed or under status effect unless their shields are depleted. So, once the shields are depleted, which is easier with ice damage, they can be under status effect easily. Element Resistance shields can also be destroyed with Shield Breakers.

Other Features

Shield Breaker damage has several other features:

• Shield Breaker can be used to detonate combos if the combat equipment is a Detonator.
• There is no Shield Breaker Blast Damage in-game.

Shield Breaker Damage Combat Equipment

The following weapons and gear can do Shield Breaker Damage (single target) to enemies during combat.

List of Combat Equipment 

Avenger's Boon Fist of the Mountain Pulse Blast Relentless Pursuit Siege Breaker Whirlwind

Trivia

• Since launch, Ranger is the only Javelin that has a gear that can do Shield Breaker damage. This feature doesn’t exist for any other javelin.
• Shield Breaker is the least amount of Damage Type used in-game.
• There is no enemy that can do Shield Breaker damage.

Note

Shield Breaker can be considered a special type of Impact damage that is modified to be effective against the Shield of an enemy.