Chaos (element)

Info

Chaos is a special elements as unlike other elements it is not affected by elemental stats.

Incoming chaos damage is affected only by the weakest resistance on the target
Because of this, the only way to defend against Chaos is by stacking all elemental resistances
As chaos is most commonly used by enemies, your options to use it as well are limited, mostly to buffs like Chaos conversion
As enemies can have resistances only against up to 4 elements, your chaos based spells are guaranteed to always do at least their full damage
Chaos damage you deal is affected by elemental penetration and elemental power. These stats do something only when they match the element that the chaos damage was converted into. E.g. If the enemy is the weakest against Fire, your fire power increases the damage it deals but the same stat is ignored if chaos damage is converted into Ice damage instead.
Chaos selects element based on the target's raw resistance. Elemental penetration does not affect the result element

Chaos in combat

It's very hard to resist chaos damage as it requires increasing all 6 elemental resistances.

Damage dealing example
Fire resist	Shadow resist	Ice resist	Storm resist	Light resist	Nature resist	Result
+90%	+80%	-20%	-100%	+50%	+35%	Chaos deals damage as if it comes from a Storm ability
+90%	+80%	+90%	+90%	+90%	+90%	Chaos deals damage as if it comes from a Shadow ability
0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	Chaos deals damage as if it comes from a Fire ability (default)
0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	-10%	Chaos deals damage as if it comes from a Nature ability
+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	0%	0%	Chaos deals damage as if it comes from a Light ability

Elements
Fire Shadow Ice Storm Light Nature Chaos