Tower of Fantasy is the latest release of open-world action MMORPG. The game draws several inspirations from Genshin Impact and one of them is the elements. However, as many gamers have claimed, Tower of Fantasy is in no way a cheap copy or mimicry of Genshin Impact. It’s a completely original game with its own design and gameplay concept that is different from Genshin Impact.
The Elements in Tower of Fantasy Explained
Tower of Fantasy has 4 Key Elements and 1 extra element that constitutes its gameplay. It has no elemental reactions between the different elements like Genshin Impact. In this game, elements are used for advantage over certain enemies, bosses, and even other players that are weak to that particular element.
In ToF, certain enemies and bosses are weak to certain specific elements and using these elements against them will allow you to deal more damage and take them down faster. You can see an enemy’s weakness to an element above their health bar where the element they are weak against will be denoted with a debuff symbol of three downward arrows.
Below are all the elements in ToF and all you need to know about them.
Physical
The physical element is purely for dealing damage. It has no elemental effects and is the best element to choose if you’re confident in your raw combat skills. Characters or weapons that deal physical damage usually have medium to high damage scaling and medium to low cooldowns on their skills.
Fire
The Fire element deals burning damage to enemies, and especially more so when you break the enemies’ shields while at it. Burning deals DoT damage or Damage over Time to affected enemies and it goes up to 16 ticks of Fire damage. The fire element can also set the grass on fire but only grass and not the soil or sand.
Ice
Ice damage can occasionally freeze your enemies thus making them immobile and giving you a dps window where you can dish out tons of uninterrupted damage. Ice can also occasionally allow you to freeze and walk on water similar to Genshin Impact’s Kaeya bridge. But this isn’t a useful mechanic here and is more often than not unreliable to trigger.
Volt
Volt or the Thunder element paralyses your opponents or short-circuits them as it is called in the CN Servers. Most Volt weapon ultimates have a large AoE and DoT thus increasing your chances to paralyse opponents. As of now, Nemesis is the most powerful and vouched-for unit in the game and she’s of the Volt element.
Aberration
The Aberration element is still a mystery because there is currently only one character called Ling that uses this and she’s not a standard banner character. It’s also not sure if she’ll be released globally so only the CN servers have experience with it. This element is known for its flexibility because it can change your weapon family to whichever two weapons you have equipped of the same element. So if you have two Volt weapons on you then it will allow you to use the Volt Aberration Field which has huge AoE and allows you to dash infinitely. Each element’s Aberration Field has its own effects and they can be used for support or dps flexibly.
It’s also to be noted that effects like Burning, Freezing and Paralysing all depend on RNG to take effect so you can’t reliably proc these effects on your enemies whenever you want them. Of course, breaking shields using any of the above elements increases your chances to trigger these effects by a long shot. You can main any of the above elements as per your needs and fancies as all of the elements are pretty balanced in the game.
actually, freezing, paralyzing and burning aren’t an RNG effect. its which ever weapon your using/ switched on, at the time. when you charge up your other weapons discharge attack, it applys the freezing, paralyzing, burning effect then. for e.g. if I’m using an ice weapon to attack enemies. if I fill up my discharge once whilst using that weapon, it will freeze them. (doesn’t work on bosses) this is why quick charging weapon that are ice or electric can be broken in PvP, as you can stun the other player allot.