What the blast resistance skill is for?

[Starfisher]

If it is not useful against Bazel, then what's its use? Or Teo firepops are blasts (even if they are, then fire res is still so much better against him).

[Nine]

It reduces the effectiveness of blastblight, which is a status used by teostra and dodogama. It's not particularly useful

[Starfisher]

Fire res does not defend against blastblight? Because I never noticed such blight on my character and I use high fire res against them. Of course maybe this blight just escaped my attention.

[Tiny serpent Shnissuvihr]

bazelgeuse doesen't inflict blastblight, his exploding scales are fire damage. and no, blastblight's damage isn't reduced with fire resistance.

blastblight is a status that will make your character explode if left unchecked, much like poison and other blights, they're something that you can remove from your character before it affects you and will make an icon for blastblight pop below your health bar, that's blastblight.

If a monster creates an explosion on it's own, it's always fire damage.

[Nine]

Fire res does nothing to it. Being afflicted with blastblight is pretty rare and it is removed by rolling like with fireblight. It's so subtle and easily removed that you probably just never noticed.

[Thundaga]

Yep, Fire Res doesn't reduce/negate Blastblight. It reduces/negates Fireblight which is when you are set on fire. Same thing with lightning damage which is associated with Thunderblight rather than Paralysis.

[Starfisher]

Oh I know now what you are talking about. I have so high fire res that I cannot be put on fire but sometimes I noticed a similar thing like fire on me which went away if I rolled. So that was blastblight!

[Stationary Traveller]

Blastblight is pretty dangerous if you aren't aware of it. I hate when Teostra gets his blast aura instead of the fire one because that can deal a huge chunk of damage instantly.