Magic Resist

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Attribute Unit Animation Attack Damage Death Crushing Blow Deadly Strike Enhanced Minimum Maximum Adds Damage Damage + % Damage to Demons to Undead Magic Fire Lightning Cold Poison Skill Damage ATD/ATLD DR/MDR Resistance Maximum Enemy Resist Sunder Immune Absorb Damage Magic Fire Lightning Cold Poison All PLR Magic Resist modifies any magic damage by a percentage, after Magic Damage Reduced has been applied; MR -100% is the floor (although no unit ever has MR < 0%), while MR > 99% makes a unit Immune to Magic. Player and mercenary normally have a ceiling of MR 75% but, since few items modify it, they normally remain at MR 0%. Item Charm Grand Charm Value Source Min Rlvl Ladder -(45-65)% Black Cleft Grand Charm 75 No (D2R only) Body armor Value Source Min Rlvl Ladder +30% Bane's Wraithskin Hard Leather Armor 8 Shield Value Source Min Rlvl Ladder +(5-10)% Safety shield 13 No Skill Paladin Skill Magic Resist % Min Rlvl Holy Bolt Ignores MR > 0% when applied to undead 6 Fist of the Heavens bolts Ignores MR > 0% when applied to undead 30 Since 1.13, Blessed Hammer no longer ignores MR > 0% when applied to demons and undead. Pet Druid Pet Normal Nightmare Hell Oak Sage 25% 25% 25% Heart of Wolverine 25% 25% 25% Spirit of Barbs 25% 25% 25% Necromancer Pet Normal Nightmare Hell Blood Golem 20% 20% 20% Revived Monster MR % Monster MR % Monster MR % Monster Consult individual monster pages for magic resistance of a particular monster, or individual area pages for magic resistance of all monsters in a particular area. MR +20% is applied by the Mana Burn Unique bonus. If this results in MR > 99%, it is only applied if a monster has less than two immunities beforehand (in which case it either becomes Immune to Magic, or increasingly so).