Can resitance be negative?

[Eclipse]

Hi,everyone can fire/magic resistance reach negative values? I am currently in the middle of my Cathay run and seems like Luminark lense artifact doesn't work. At least enemy units have no debuff icon on their unit card.

[Elitewrecker PT]

I'm not 100% sure on the workings since regeneration for example adds 25% fire weakness, which might work different from a -25% resistance.
While reducing physical or spell resistance might only apply to the existent resists and doesn't turn the surplus into weakness.

[Eclipse]

So this artifact is almost useless?Enemy troops rarely have fire resistance. In Cathay campaing at least.

[Elitewrecker PT]

I would expect to see a debuff yeah, but I haven't played cathay so can't help there.

[ILLair]

Well it can be and it can be really fun
https://youtu.be/ZR6_xAIsYRU

[Inardesco]

You can add weaknesses through the database. For instance, you can add -50% phys resist.

That said, I don't know how that translates into the actual game. Do you get more damage from physical attacks?

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Short answer:
Yes, but also no.

Long answer:
Overall resistance values can be reduced to -100% (double damage) with the default ruleset. However, it will never be displayed properly if a resistance is below 0%. At present, the only resistance that can be brought below 0% is fire resistance, as a handful of effects apply a penalty to it.

[Eclipse]

Originally posted by Commisar Jon Fuklaw:

Short answer:
Yes, but also no.

Long answer:
Overall resistance values can be reduced to -100% (double damage) with the default ruleset. However, it will never be displayed properly if a resistance is below 0%. At present, the only resistance that can be brought below 0% is fire resistance, as a handful of effects apply a penalty to it.

So does this Cathay artifact work?For example if I stack it+furnance (another -% debuff) and use Cathay's fire spells.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Commisar Jon Fuklaw:

Short answer:
Yes, but also no.

Long answer:
Overall resistance values can be reduced to -100% (double damage) with the default ruleset. However, it will never be displayed properly if a resistance is below 0%. At present, the only resistance that can be brought below 0% is fire resistance, as a handful of effects apply a penalty to it.

Missile resist?
Rune smiths debuff enemy resistance, so it should work too i guess.