Elemental Tortoise

[mypony89]

Ok, so dumb question but do you actually NEED to have a shield equiped in order for this skill to work? I'm trying to get my fire resist up past 100% so fire heals me. I just took Demon in the Talents section and I can only get it to 60ish%
I'm running a duel wielder LW + a wiz LW. If I can't use Elemental Tortoise is there another way to make this work?

[Qiox]

Elemental resists are capped at 80%. Demon raises the cap to 90%. You can only go higher with temporary effects like potions and spells that last a couple turns. Going over 100% was patched out of the regular version of the game a long time ago.

[Big Mad Wolf]

Elemental resistances are capped at 80% (90% if you get demon or ice king). In non-enhanced you were able to cast shield to push the resistance above 100%, wich made those shield quite broken. Now they changed that.

If elemental tortoise stacks with the max resistance, than you should be able to easily go over 100%, but so far I don't know, if it does. Haven't played that far yet. Or you can go with avatar of fire, wich gives additional 25% resistance if those stack with the max.

[c4ndlejack]

It's still capped at 80? The patch notes said it went up to 100.

[mypony89]

http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=572102

In the patch notes it said:

- Max resistance of player chars was capped to 80%, this is now 100%

Am I understanding it wrong?

[Big Mad Wolf]

Could be, never read the patch notes to not spoil the surprises. :)

But they also made it harder to get high resistances even with man-at-arms, so can't tell how easily 100% are achievable in late game.

[mypony89]

Hmmm, I don't know whether to go with demon now or not? I just lvled up and am about to fight Diederick on Tactitian. Hmmmm.......my whole plan was to get 100+% along with Leech for self heals but if demon isn't going to help me get my goal I may need to rethink my entire build.

[Big Mad Wolf]

If the new cap is 100%, you could get 110% with demon from item and so. Skills should increase the resistance even further, but can't tell for sure atm. only leve 7 now ^^

[mypony89]

I'll have to keep an eye out for Elemental Tortoise and see if I need a shield for it. I think right now I'm going to hold off on Demon. Might go for leech or something else.

[Big Mad Wolf]

Regarding the Wiki, it requires a shield.

[mypony89]

Ah, thanks for pointing that out for me. I didn't bother looking at the right side of the screen as I thought it was nothing but advertisements lol.

[Coffeepot]

just found the skillbook, still requires shield and its 40% for all except earth which just says 40, probably a bug.

[Coffeepot]

avatar of fire stacks with it to get to 100

[Boink]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Elemental resists are capped at 80%. Demon raises the cap to 90%. You can only go higher with temporary effects like potions and spells that last a couple turns. Going over 100% was patched out of the regular version of the game a long time ago.

Nope.

I have a fire mage with 96% base resist (for using explode).


What has changed is that having >100% (via chilled) no longer heals you. Annoying, I was trying to use frozen / heat etc to make a char who could port into the middle of combat and AoE.



Hint: Hiberia map, north, there's a reason that the wolf master has an anti-fire Aura. It was too easy otherwise ;)

[mypony89]

Originally posted by Lexington Steale:

avatar of fire stacks with it to get to 100

Yeah, I was just trying to get away with not having to spend AP on casting a spell.