Angelic Aspect spell question

[Hathur]

Greater Angelic Aspect gives you damage reduction of 10/evil .. however, I am finding this never works 99% of the time when fighting demons... just humans or other various non-demon monsters in the world... since the vast majority of what we fight is demons in the game, this spell feels mostly useless (the other bonuses it provides are often redundant as they are generally available from much lower level spells).

Does DR 10/Evil mean any evil-aligned enemy bypasses the reduction, or is it just that demons all seem to have evil aligned weapons / attacks?

[a ********]

PNP, evil outsiders specifically count as evil for overcoming DR/evil, not evil creatures in general. But yes, that’s a big % of Wrath enemies.

[Hathur]

Originally posted by Hunter Johnson:

PNP, evil outsiders specifically count as evil for overcoming DR/evil, not evil creatures in general. But yes, that’s a big % of Wrath enemies.

Bleh, thanks. Seems like a very absurd design choice by the pnp creators... you give a spell that a good person / being can cast, you would assume it exists to defend against evil (what's more evil than demons).. instead it's designed to defend you against good / neutral... you would think the it should be DR 10/good , since holy protection should not defend you against good beings since you have no business attacking / fighting good.

Anyway, thanks for the answer, just feels like a shame that spell is basically useless in this game, utterly absurd design concept.

[Stormsong]

Originally posted by Hathur:

Originally posted by Hunter Johnson:

PNP, evil outsiders specifically count as evil for overcoming DR/evil, not evil creatures in general. But yes, that’s a big % of Wrath enemies.

Bleh, thanks. Seems like a very absurd design choice by the pnp creators... you give a spell that a good person / being can cast, you would assume it exists to defend against evil (what's more evil than demons).. instead it's designed to defend you against good / neutral... you would think the it should be DR 10/good , since holy protection should not defend you against good beings since you have no business attacking / fighting good.

Anyway, thanks for the answer, just feels like a shame that spell is basically useless in this game, utterly absurd design concept.

FWIW I agree with you. There are a number of DR assignments across the game that made my scratch my head.

[seeker1]

DR 10/evil for your protection is supposed to mean that if you are attacked by an enemy that is evil, you have 10 points of damage reduction against them. (They on their side might be able to bypass it mind and so yes demons could be bypassing it.)

[Azraelur]

Originally posted by seeker1:

DR 10/evil for your protection is supposed to mean that if you are attacked by an enemy that is evil, you have 10 points of damage reduction against them. (They on their side might be able to bypass it mind and so yes demons could be bypassing it.)

its the other way around DR10/evil means 10 against everything BUT evil,
the confusion comes generally from the elemental damagereduction works, there 10/fire means 10 reductin only against fire, the complete opposite to physical damagereduction.

[seeker1]

Counterinuitive indeed, but you are correct.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_RPG/comments/30q50f/is_dr_10evil_dr_10_against_evil_or_excluding_evil/

I also agree it doesn't make sense angelic aspect would give that as a benefit.