Knowledge needed please

[SKI]

Please set me straight.
What is the difference?
True damage
Physical damage
Random damage(understood)
Magic damage(understood)
What should the talisman be strong in for
True damage and physical damage?

[SteveHarris]

True damage
Both magic and attack stats provide your base damage while ignoring the enemy defence and resistance

Physical damage
This is your attack stat

For example, warrior Lilith uses physical damage. Most players I assume would suit her up with red talismans as they provide strictly attack stat for damage.

Assassin Raven Witch uses true damage so any talisman that provides magic, physical or both work with her but may not be as effective on warrior Lilith.

[Intimidator]

http://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/showthread.php?1739-Guide-How-to-choose-your-character-s-talismans

this helped me out a lot. Some of the names for the older talismans changed.

[Liu]

What should the talisman be strong in for
True damage and physical damage?

Do you mean an attacker who has both true AND physical damage abilities, or 2 different toons of either type ?

Anyway, if your objective is to maximize (expected) damage output (ignoring buffs/debuffs, synergies and enemy resistances)

physical damager:
maximize physical damage

magic damager:
maximize magic damage

true damager:
maximize the sum of physical and magic damage

random damager:
maximize the sum of physical and magic damage

(true OR random damager) AND physical damager:
maximize physical damage

(true OR random damager) AND magic damager:
maximize magic damage


For true damage both the physical and magic stat are combined to deal damage. Let's assume it's equally weighted.
For random damage, one of either physical, magic or true damage is selected as damage type. Let's assume chances for each type are equal.

hope this helps