Resistance

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Attribute Unit Animation Attack Damage Death Crushing Blow Enhanced Minimum Maximum Adds Damage Damage + % Damage to Demons to Undead Deadly Strike Magic Fire Lightning Cold Poison Skill Damage ATD/ATLD DR/MDR Resistance Maximum Enemy Resist Immune Absorb Sunder Damage Magic Fire Lightning Cold Poison All PLR Resistance modifies the relevant damage type by a percentage, after Damage Reduced and Magic Damage Reduced have been applied; Resist -100% is the floor, while Resist > 99% makes a unit immune to the relevant damage type. Increasing resistance decreases damage by a percentage, effectively increasing effective life against that damage type; conversely, decreasing it increases damage. Final Resist > Initial Resist Effective life multiplier = (100 - Initial Resist) / (100 - Final Resist) For example, increasing resistance from 25% to 50% decreases damage from 75% to 50%, multiplying effective life by 1.5 (75/50); increasing it from 50% to 75% decreases damage from 50% to 25%, multiplying effective life by 2 (50/25) (the effect on effective life becomes more significant as resistance increases beyond 50%). Final Resist < Initial Resist Damage multiplier = (100 - Final Resist) / (100 - Initial Resist) For example, decreasing resistance from 75% to 50% increases damage from 25% to 50%, multiplying damage by 2 (50/25); decreasing it from 50% to 25% increases damage from 50% to 75%, multiplying damage by 1.5 (75/50) (the effect on damage becomes less significant as resistance decreases below 50%). The table below lists multipliers of damage or effective life as resistance increases or decreases: Resistance Initial Final -100% -75% -50% -25% 0% 25% 50% 75% 80% 85% 90% 95% -100% 1.00 1.14 1.33 1.60 2.00 2.67 4.00 8.00 10.00 13.33 20.00 40.00 -75% 1.14 1.00 1.17 1.40 1.75 2.33 3.50 7.00 8.75 11.67 17.50 35.00 -50% 1.33 1.17 1.00 1.20 1.50 2.00 3.00 6.00 7.50 10.00 15.00 30.00 -25% 1.60 1.40 1.20 1.00 1.25 1.67 2.50 5.00 6.25 8.33 12.50 25.00 0% 2.00 1.75 1.50 1.25 1.00 1.33 2.00 4.00 5.00 6.67 10.00 20.00 25% 2.67 2.33 2.00 1.67 1.33 1.00 1.50 3.00 3.75 5.00 7.50 15.00 50% 4.00 3.50 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 2.00 2.50 3.33 5.00 10.00 75% 8.00 7.00 6.00 5.00 4.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 1.25 1.67 2.50 5.00 80% 10.00 8.75 7.50 6.25 5.00 3.75 2.50 1.25 1.00 1.33 2.00 4.00 85% 13.33 11.67 10.00 8.33 6.67 5.00 3.33 1.67 1.33 1.00 1.50 3.00 90% 20.00 17.50 15.00 12.50 10.00 7.50 5.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 2.00 95% 40.00 35.00 30.00 25.00 20.00 15.00 10.00 5.00 4.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 Player fire, cold, lightning and poison resistance are displayed in the bottom right corner of the character screen (and mercenary screen): Resist < 0% is displayed in red, Resist > -1% is in white (or blue when enhanced by a skill bonus) and in gold when the ceiling has been reached. Damage and magic resistance are not displayed. Player and mercenary have a ceiling of Damage Reduced by 50%, while for all other damage types they have a ceiling of 75% which can be increased to 95% by applying +% Maximum Resist (although any excess can offset penalties that might otherwise reduce it below this ceiling). Difficulty level penalties of -40% in Nightmare and -100% in Hell (-20% and -50% respectively in Classic games) also apply to the following for them: Fire Resist Lightning Resist Cold Resist Poison Resist Poison Length Reduced Mana damage [1] Stamina damage [2] The character and mercenary screens normally display resistances accurately, with the following exceptions: Malah gives a Scroll of Resistance applying +10% All Resistances to the player as a reward for rescuing Anya from the Prison of Ice in each difficulty level. After dying in a game this bonus is no longer applied (although it is still displayed by the character screen), but it will be restored after saving and exiting. Despite what the character screen displays, higher level Conviction will only prevent a hostile lower level being applied if the higher level is active before the lower level is applied; equal level never prevents hostile Conviction being applied. [3] No such ceilings or penalties apply to pets or monsters, who can become immune to multiple damage types. Download Monster Resistances.xls for a filtered list of all monsters and their resistances and immunities in Hell; if you don't have Microsoft Office or Excel, you can download Excel Viewer or OpenOffice for free to view it. Reference Resistances (Arreat Summit) Energy Shield, Damage Taken Goes To Mana, Mana Burn (D2 Technical) Higher conviction overwriting lower conviction (D2 Technical)