I'm just wondering why characters in this game have an "Earth Resistance" stat. Because Larian seems very focused on making Earth damage = Poison damage. They even removed Earth-type damage from Wands and Staves a few months back for absolutely no good reason at all.

I think there are two Earth damage skills in the game, and both of those are used more because they also spread huge pools of oil.

Am I missing sources of Earth Damage? Are there Earth Damage arrows or grenades? Are there a whole bunch of Earth Damage skills sitting on a desk in Larian Studios?

Because if those two skills are the only things in the game, then just switch the boulder to do Crushing damage and the Spikes to do Piercing damage, and then delete Earth Resistance from the game.

That will be one fewer useless magical prefix which can appear on random items (delete Indestructible from magic prefixes as well if you haven't already), and therefore removing it will make magic items fractionally better.