Can someone explain resist?

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I play mage with 3 points in elemental precision (6% reduce chance to resist). I am currently lvl 39 farming mobs lvl 33-35 and maybe once every 3 pulls (around 8 mobs per pull) i get a resist. I seem to remember there’s a 1% chance resist that we can’t cap but atm I have to block or cold snap every 2 or 3 pulls just to get everyone nova. And I am 4 to 6 lvl HIGHER than the mobs I farm, how is this possible ?

I have been farming the same spot with a mage on HC from lvl 33 to 40 and never had that much issue. Also why is the Blizzard spell not doing damage for the first 2 to 3 seconds when there is the tiniest bump of dirt on the path I’m aoeing ?

Am I just having a bad session or is it something other players have witnessed ?

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Resist is basically caster miss, and there’s always that one percent that you will miss.

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Some mobs have magic resistance. Dragons are often resistant to fire spells.
Demon fel hunter are often resistant to all schools of magic.

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Resist in combat log look the same from several sources.

Source 1: Lack of hit.
Source 2: the constant 1% you talked about
Source 3: Binary spells resist du to spell resistance on the mob.

Binary spells are spells which can only have full effect (hit) or no effect (resist); partial resists are not possible.

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