Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160419024928/@comment-24534644-20160424201510

It really doesn't seem as balanced if literally every type of Elemental damage goes under the same category of resistance. Reasonably speaking, most Hunters would restrict themselves to carrying only one or two types of Dust on them, if any, unless their weapon is specifically designed to utilize Dust and they opt for mage-style combat. You wouldn't lose that much by dividing up the elemental categories further, just make it less all-encompassing.

My idea in regards to elemental-direct attacks is that, in the instance you described, the two types of damage in that last attack would occur simultaneously. Because the Semblance can't guard against two damage types at once, one of two things would happen. A), the Semblance completely drops whichever resistance is already stacked up and the user takes the full brunt of the attack, or B), the Semblance still maintains the resistance against the melee damage, but then drops that stacked resistance immediately afterward due to the elemental damage breaking the chain.