Is chaos resistance needed?

[Zi]

And agains who?
Who using chaos attacks?

[Drake]

If you can get some, it's better. There are a good bunch of mobs that use chaos damage. Most of it is in the form of poison, so you can mitigate it with a good life regen.

[Zi]

I just was thinkins is it worth to get move through 3x +4 life and chaos res on skill tree to Purity of Flesh both +8 and 10 str. Seems not that critical and better to spent points on smth else for my witch.

[general_windu512]

It's not so hard to get enough chaos resistance . You could buy a rare ring and a rare belt each with 25 - 30 % chaos resistance from another player on poe.trade for example. that's more than enough. Chaos damage in this game is a low damage for most enemies from what i noticed. It just feels so strong because you have -60% on merciless by default. So if you're near 0% or above it you have enough resistance for the normal monsters. For some specific bosses you can take an amestyst flask with you.

Also enemies dealing chaos damage are mostly those serpents and vaal constructs from act 2 and act 3 (you will see them fairly often in the endgame maps)

[general_windu512]

Originally posted by Xi:

I just was thinkins is it worth to get move through 3x +4 life and chaos res on skill tree to Purity of Flesh both +8 and 10 str. Seems not that critical and better to spent points on smth else for my witch.

Spending points on chaos resistance is a waste - you should get most (if not all) of it from equipment

[Zi]

Ah, those are chaos dmging.. Thanks!

[Zi]

Originally posted by general_windu512:

Originally posted by Xi:

I just was thinkins is it worth to get move through 3x +4 life and chaos res on skill tree to Purity of Flesh both +8 and 10 str. Seems not that critical and better to spent points on smth else for my witch.

Spending points on chaos resistance is a waste - you should get most (if not all) of it from equipment

Roger.
Was moving to think so too but needed to verify. Good then!
Thanks again!

[cyconet101]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/419jsr/list_of_maps_with_chaos_damage_bosses/ I try to get it above 0 by mapping 30 hc. Chaos bosses are really all i worry about.

[mss73055]

I did the Pale Council at 3k life / -60 chaos resistance. I died a few times, but even there you don't need it.

[Master Bernd]

You only really should worry about getting chaos resistance if you do pale council or chayula runs. It is nice to have, but don't go out of your way to get some if it isn't required.

[Tatanka]

just CI problem solved :P

[jbridso]

I found having maxed Chaos Resistance to be quite noticable on my Necromancer. It was also quite easy to max all resists due to the 50%+ elemental resistance bonus from auras.

It's not necessary, but it makes potentially fatal chaos damage trivial.