Why do I have -50% penalties to my elemental resistances?

General Discussion PC
1

Logged in after patch and my elemental resistance are between 1% and 10% !!!
I hovered over and the stats would be fine except for every one having -50% penalties
Anyone a clue what that is? If armor doesn’t count for resistances now the game will be unplayable and I don’t even know what the penaties are for.
Does anyone know?

1 Like
2

Its probably a bug un less you are in world tier 4, world tiers 3 and 4 have penalties to resistances, in world tier 4 you lose 50% all res. don’t forget these are base and additive now.

3

the whole resistance system got a rework , you get -20% resistance on tier 3 and -50% on tier 4

4

also the max cap for resistances are 70% so you need 120% on tier 4 to reach the 70% cap

5

Thanks guys for your iinput.
They have also reduced the resistances on all jewelry. So my fire, for example should be 18 + 8.7 +7.8 (all resistances on 3 items), +9.6 = 44.1
But hovering over fire res itsays 51.6 - 50 = 1.7 = the numbers don’t add up (their doing not mine) but they are all low.
WHY penalise all items AND penalise with -50 on top.
If they have done away with armor contribution to this it’ll be unplayable.
1.7% resistance to fire means I’m dead in any nightmare dungeon with fire in it even if I chug fire resist pots (which are now worth half so only 15%)
Guess I’ll be playing on Tier 3 as Level 92 Rogue for a while. I’ve not looked at paragons to see if tier 3 might be out of my league if I’ve been nerfed there too…

Don’t get me started on items - my +4 rapid fire item is now +3. And several items lose some of their power.
Nerfed beyond all recognition.
Could be the end for me - I was looking forward to starting a new Season 2 character but might not bother.

1 Like
6

they only penalized allresist items , items with individual resists (aka fire , shadow , cold etc, ) aint penalized

7

This is the biggest issue in the game right now, aside from glitch builds being mandatory.

i have a ton of bonus resist but my lightning and poison are -15%… It just makes the game incredibly annoying to play, lightning and poision are already the most annoying elements to fight against, so its almost not worth playing at this point.

Im going to unlock the 9% resist legendary paragon node… and maybe keep some elixirs for each type … or like i said i might just stop playing because elixirs are rare eventhough i collect all the mats in open world, zzzzzz bad update by blizzard.

8

Try rolling more resists on your gear. i’ve got stuff like +60% poison and +50% shadow on 1 set of boots for instance. The annoying thing about it is having to try to reroll resis to maintain cap if you upgrade an item with much better stats on it, but you can’t cover both resi stats.