Most Common Energy Types Used by Monsters?

[Crowsion]

I don't have a DDI subscription so I don't have access to the compendium but I know someone out there on the world wide web does. I'm looking for a few charts showing the most common Vulnerabilities and Resistances monster posses as well as the types of energies they attack with.

If you have made a chart yourself, or know where someone who has maybe blogged it please post a link.

 

[Quickleaf]

Never bothered to make a chart, but experience tells me most common damage types monsters deal (besides "untyped") is poison and necrotic. Resistance hasn't come up much in my games. The #1 vulnerability has to be radiant for all those undead beasties.

Obviously these are generalizations.

It's also worth noting that resistances can show up (or not show up) in some unusual places that you wouldn't expect. Fire elementals spring to mind.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I'm pretty sure fire doesn't come up as often, but quite a few demons and elementals dish out this kind of damage. Cold is a bit less common, and (not surprisingly) often mirrors fire; eg frost giants vs fire giants.

 

[Larrin]

For MM1:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...th-edition-monster-resistance-statistics.html

http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4t...s-resistances-immunities-vulnerabilities.html

http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-discussion/229092-lots-statistics-monster-manual.html

I don't know if other monster sources are covered in other posts or even later in these threads.....

more recent post:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4t...793-pyromancer-mage-balanced.html#post5474206

 

[Crowsion]

Wow, that's exactly what I needed.

And thank you all, I really appreciate the fast response.

 

[fba827]

Just keep in mind that unless your DM is using every single monster from the MM once, then your own home game will vary.

For instance, if your campaign simply features a lot of undead, you'll get radiant vulnerability and fire stuff will never come up.
Or if you spend an entire arc in some mountains to get a flower from the garden of the frost giant's daughter as a component to some powerful magic spell, then you'll end up meeting a lot of creatures with cold resistance and cold based attacks but radiant vulnerability will rarely show up.

so just keep that in mind if you wanted the statistics for trying to guess what willl be most useful in your homegames -- because it really comes down to what types of monsters feature the most at your table

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

And (going on the "lots of undead" theme), there are templates and themes that can make energy resistance or immunity more common.

The DMG 1 has the "Undead Master" (or something along those lines) template, which includes an aura 5 which removes vulnerability to radiant damage for undead allies. I routinely give that to evil cleric NPCs I've drawn up to stand in for "bolster undead". (Necro-clerics get something worse.) Naturally, PCs would be encouraged to force-move the evil cleric away from the undead so the cleric can fry them with radiant power.

I think there's a few creatures that can inflict vulnerability to an element (or ignore some or all of a PC's resistances or immunity). There's even PC powers that can inflict vulnerability on enemies.