Soul Eater Gets Species Resistance Bonus

So I saw on ffxicyclopedia, but not on BGwiki that souleater is affected by species resistance. So I thought I would test and post about it to link as a reference for BG wiki. TLDR: souleater does get a boost from species resistance like +25% piercing damage.

I did my testing on Ogre Fly in The Sanctuary of Zitah where my attack is capped easily. If you saw my other post you would see I derived the Ogre fly def/vit/lv in area. These values are now on BGwiki, the data driving the decision on this test was from a lv41 Ogrefly.

I used NIN/DRK with a 29 base dmg dagger. Weapon rank = 3, so fSTR cap was 11 and reached at 80 STR which I easily surpassed with 200+ STR and 700+ Attack during the testing.
I had 2036 HP and I only counted the first hit, which would have been a 101 bonus to my damage.
Because NIN was my main the SE contribution was 5% and my dmg limit+ was 0.1 making the pDIF cap 3.35 with a range up to 3.518(with the 1.05 randomizer).

I first swung 10 times to confirm my damage without SE was in range.
(base dmg + fSTR)*pDIF*species = total
min = (29+11)*3.35*1.25 = 167.5
max = ((29+11)*3.518)*1.25 = 175.9
My swings were: 168, 170, 168, 171 ,172 ,173 ,175, 168, 172 so all good there.

Min/Max if souleater doesn't benefit from species resistance:
(base dmg + fSTR)*pDIF*species + SE = total
min = (29+11)*3.35*1.25+101 = 268.5
max = ((29+11)*3.518)*1.25+101 = 276.9

Min/Max if souleater does benefit from species resistance:
((base dmg + fSTR)*pDIF + SE)*1.25 = total
min = ((29+11)*3.35+101)*1.25 = 293.75
max = ((29+11)*3.518+101)*1.25 = 302.15

My first SE melee swing came in at 297.

Conclusion: Soul eater gets the species resistance bonus or penalty.

So which mobs soul eater strong against?

whichever is weak to your weapon type already?

Hounds, Rafflesia, Qutrub should take more damage from slashing, however, this should work in reverse so you would know that your SE damage will be reduced as well against anything with slashing resistance. Flans, elementals, adamantoise, ghosts, mimics, skeles etc will take less.

This post won't change the way anyone plays DRK but I thought it was interesting and wanted to document on BGwiki as well.