How Elemental Resistance works
so from what I can gather, high level bosses have 2 types of defence, normal (which requires PDR) and some % elemental resistance. I get that explorer mages, evans, lumis, and palidins (and other classes I may have missed missed) can ignore % elemental resistance but iv seen alot of classes out side of that list hitting cap on bosses like CRA and gollux. So my quesstion is, how is that possible ?
I can see that my phantom has like 40% ele resistance but how much would my damage be reduced ?
Can you by pass ele resistance with mass PDR or are my non pally/ ele resisting mages doomed to have nerfed damage at bosses like those?
April 1, 2014
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Do recent monsters even have elemental attacks?
They just do so much damage that they deal cap damage anyway.
Also, your Phantom's elemental resistance is for reducing elemental damage dealt to you, not ignoring elemental resistance from monsters.
they'd normally be dealing twice as much damage on the boss if there was no cap, that's how.
if you deal 120m on a boss without elemental resistance, you it him for 50m.
if you deal 120m on a boss with resistance, it gets halved to 60m, then reduced to the cap of 50m.
so yeah, they hitting the boss hard son.
Massive PDR and %boss should suffice in terms of 'cancelling' out the fact that bishops/paladins don't have any sort of elemental reset to mobs and bosses. Also, those people hitting cap on CRA bosses are funded to the point that those tiny things like elemental resistance doesn't matter any more.