Does Poison Resist work

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i have 75% on T1 poison resist but yet it still chucks me like crazy does anybody else feel that way none of the other resists seem to hurt at max resists

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Poison has always felt OP even with max resists. Even with tassets giving inc max res. There was some testing a few seasons ago where it looked like it does about 5x the expected damage. Not sure if bug or intended, but either way watch out!

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ty its so nice to know blizzard looks into these things

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Isn’t poison op since games relese? At least IT feels like IT.

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Poison is utter nonsense, I get that since some of the damage is delivered as DOT it made sense for it to do a bit more damage than equivalent attacks of other elements, but not to the extent where it’s the only thing outside of just standing still (and one-shots) that can kill me. Frankly with this design, using a potion should cure the DOT too.

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Yeah the homing poison pools are a total nightmare… they should nerf poison damage. This is getting ridiculous now

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it is bugged. I have 85% poison resist(Tyrael and Andariel) on Eternal and I am one shot by Poisin sometimes. max armor, tons of dmg reduction…

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Poison is way overtuned.

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I’ve always suspected that Poison Resist only operates on the first dot tick, then gets ignored by the subsequent ones. I have zero proof or testing.

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from what ive red its been this way for a long time but we never noticed it because we didnt have the stat squish now that were taking way more from a source then others so its way more noticeable now then it was before

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at max resistance, you still need 85 bottles to stop it.
I personally cant stand it anymore.

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Resistance only reduce direct damage. It doesn’t lower damage over time stuff. Please don’t stand in the fire. Unless it’s PvP then stand in the fire.

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Are you sure it’s poison?

Reason I’m asking is that all elements can have damage over time components, and if you are affected by any of them, they all colour your health globe green, regardless of the actual element.

Maybe your other resists are not quite as strong as your poison resist?