How does resistance work?

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I keep stacking poison resist to survive spiders but i seem to maybe be taking even more dmg??

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Short answer: It doesn’t.

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Currently i believe resistances do not work at least not noticeable. Heard something about them fixing it by or at the start of season 1. Just stack armor it somewhat works

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It’s not working properly right now. You could stack poison on every piece and %armor will do more on one piece of gear. It will be fixed at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later

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It’s broken to the point that it doesn’t even matter to get resistance. They take up an affix slot that would be better filled by pretty much anything else. The only thing that matters in this game as far as defense, outside of extra things like barrier, is armor.

Armor is so brokenly overpowered almost nothing else matters, defensively. Your armor helps you deal with poison damage better than 100% poison resistance would.

And this is going to be impossible for them to fix, most likely, because armor is how they scaled enemies in their level scaling nonsense. If they nerf armor, then they will break their level scaling mechanic.

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“How does resistance work?”

It doesn’t. With current implementation, you can safely ignore Resistance, ESPECIALLY single element Resistance.

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They discussed it at the campfire and said around season 3 hopefully yea?

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Wow! This reminds me of a free indie game I used to play but they fixed it after a week with a big patch.

Maybe they didn’t have time to fix it with time constraints and quotas or something?

Having a broke game is better than no game I guess.

Those cosmetics skins are really high quality though!

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I believe the way it works is it narrows the gap between physical damage and elemental damage. Say your armor rating negated 50% damage, and 25% elemental damage, and you had 50% of any given resistance:

You would negate 50% of the damage that wouldn’t be mitigated by armor, raising the mitigation against non physical from 25% to 37.5%. If it works that way, you really wouldn’t notice much from it compared to any other form of mitigation, but it’s enough that you should try to keep them even.