How does damage type and damage resistance work?

[Zolfried]

Do you always target weakest resistance?.. like when dual wielding, its not hard to get 4-5 damage types.. does damage get calculated against the weakest resistance of the 4-5 or does the damage get split up and calculated against each resistance?
and if you have pure damage, you just outright ignore all enemy resistances?

im wondering if ill buy the draconid weapons, while they all have pure dmg, they all deal alot less face value dmg then my current weapons.. not sure if its worth it.

[Farlon]

If I understood the devs right, you always target the weakest resistance if you have that damage type. As for Pure damage, I'm not completely sure but I think its also the weakest resist.

[Zolfried]

tutorial thingy says pure ignores resistance.. meaning it'll treat everything as 0.. if it works as intended, regular dmg type should still take priority over pure if the enemy have negative resistance to it.. like arsonist -50 resistance to slashing.. a hero with pure + slashing should prioritize slash dmg vs the arsonist..

still though.. the pure weapons innate lower dmg is abit of a bummer.. makes the pure weapons feel like backup weapon incase you meet some enemy who have very high resist vs all... otherwise its better to use weapons without pure dmg cause those weapons deal more base dmg

[SagarMalviya]

at one point i made a hero with ALL dmg resistance 100, but he was still taking damage, and not from enemies damaging pure dmg, some regular enemies

[Whitehaven]

Originally posted by SagarMalviya:

at one point i made a hero with ALL dmg resistance 100, but he was still taking damage, and not from enemies damaging pure dmg, some regular enemies

The resistance numbers are not in %, this means 100resistance doesn't mean you get 100% damage reduction.

[SagarMalviya]

Originally posted by Whitehaven:

Originally posted by SagarMalviya:

at one point i made a hero with ALL dmg resistance 100, but he was still taking damage, and not from enemies damaging pure dmg, some regular enemies

The resistance numbers are not in %, this means 100resistance doesn't mean you get 100% damage reduction.

but when the enemy has 50 resistance to something that particular damage type does half the damage.

[Zolfried]

maybe you got hit by weakness? that makes resistance go down..

[SagarMalviya]

Originally posted by Zolfried:

maybe you got hit by weakness? that makes resistance go down..

No i tried against normal soldier they don't hit u with spell, and while i was taking damage it was still showing all 100 resistances,

[Farlon]

Originally posted by SagarMalviya:

Originally posted by Zolfried:

maybe you got hit by weakness? that makes resistance go down..

No i tried against normal soldier they don't hit u with spell, and while i was taking damage it was still showing all 100 resistances,

You still take small amount of damage with 100 resistances just to make you killable.

[SagarMalviya]

Originally posted by Farlon:

Originally posted by SagarMalviya:

No i tried against normal soldier they don't hit u with spell, and while i was taking damage it was still showing all 100 resistances,

You still take small amount of damage with 100 resistances just to make you killable.

Maybe or just another bug not encountered.

[Farlon]

Originally posted by SagarMalviya:

Originally posted by Farlon:

You still take small amount of damage with 100 resistances just to make you killable.

Maybe or just another bug not encountered.

Not a bug, this rather feels intended.

[Zolfried]

could just be a max resistance cap... visually the cap is 100 but maybe its actually a lower number... and if thats the case, that limit might actually not apply to everyone.. like heroes cap at 95% but golems cap at 100%...