Elemental damage - ghosts and wraiths.Usually, it's rending damage from claws and teeth. Monster damage - all kinds of beasts you encounter during travels.Bludgeoning damage - mostly armed humans and non-humans also beasts with smashing attacks, like Golems.

Piercing damage - mostly armed humans and non-humans.Slashing damage - mostly armed humans and non-humans.Make sure to evaluate all the pros and cons of equipping an armor piece that says it's 50 points better than your current one: consider the resistance values stated in the description of the item to decide if it's worth it. Gear pieces with high resistance values can be life-saving in many combat situations. On Blood and Broken Bones! difficulty, you'll often take severe hits for 1 000+ damage, let alone the Death March! setting. As you progress, armor rating may become partially irrelevant: percentage is way more useful to protect Geralt against greater damage. If something hits you for 100 damage and you have 40 armor and 50% resistance against that kind of damage, you take (100 - 40) * 0.5 = 30 damage. Resistance is a percent reduction applied AFTER the armor rating, and only protecting against a particular type of damage, like piercing or slashing. Enemies don't dish out much damage, and you'll get substantial reductions without having to calculate their damage type to provide corresponding resistances: armor rating affects every damage type, be it bludgeoning, slashing, monster damage, etc. At the start of the game, it may be useful to keep your armor rating as high as possible. It's subtracted from the incoming damage: say, you're hit for 50 and have armor rating of 15, then you'll be damaged for 35.

The witcher 3 light armor