Hi Snowflake,

That's a VERY good question. It looks like you're trying to go for a "pure physical damage" build, but aren't sure if that's viable, given that certain aspects of the game's skills aren't very detailed.
I'm afraid I don't have an answer to your question, but I'm also curious to find out. Also - Does anyone know where we can learn more about the game's mechanics? "Gameplay Help" isn't all that great.

Good luck out there!

Klesk

^Why did you reply as if you were sending a work-related e-mail? No offense intended, but it kinda comes off as weird in an informal internet forum, tbh. To answer your question, there's no in-game help page, though some information can be found in the detailed stat page by clicking Show Details at the bottom of the character screen and then hovering over various stats for an explanatory tooltip. Since the game is brand new and received heavy changes since the beta, there's no online resource as of yet that's much use, at least not that I've found.

Anyway, as for the topic of the thread, passive skill nodes don't currently have any effect on the Aspects, so no it won't make any of them unusable. It's also worth noting that to get to that node you have to take two nodes which convert 30% of elemental and ocult damage into physical, so even for non-material damage which is affected, you'll still do at minimum 30% of the previous amount baseline.

You're heckling a non-english native about having too formal of a tone? Seems rather American.

I have no way of knowing whether they're a native speaker or not, and that seems irrelevant to the criticism anyway; as far as I'm aware, speaking a different language doesn't make you add headers and footers to every message.

Either way, a slightly critical question in case the person was unaware how they may come off isn't even close to heckling and if that's your bar then I shudder to think of how you might deal with actual confrontation.