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Solar
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Whyred wrote:
altoiddealer wrote:
Solar wrote:
Whyred wrote:
Solar wrote:
Whyred wrote:Does it always make sense to get -% resistance on gear - or is there a point where the enemies cannot be further reduced in their resistance?

Always go foe -res% as say negative is still useful

But is there a cap?

No . I currently run lightning sorc and have -130%. And looking to get more. Dmg = LD*(1-Lres) so you get a lot more form stacking both -res and damage then just by going for one. Also allows you to harass that element resistant mobs in later rifts.
Say mob has 80% resist. I get him to -50% so I deal extra half damage to it.
Yet when you face a boss with smt like 300% you can only lower him to 170 and he will still be immune.
So stacking pierce is good.
If mob has 0% resist. Then I get him to -100 and he takes twice more damage. Mobs can go as low as -100 but I’m not sure for the 2.0 patch.
Use d2stats to see this values easily and compare your gear based on that.

There are certainly caps. I’ll copy/paste the result of !pierce command in #General in discord
199 for sam/phoboss
195 for anomaly
190 for deimoss
170 for most other uber bosses
160 for astro/uldy
135 for farming


These are the numbers you need to hit for the maximum effectiveness. For farming in Hell difficulty you will not deal more damage with 150 pierce versus 135



That's very helpful. Thank you.
I know there are diminishing returns to Spell Factor and Energy (the damage boost), but what about spell damage %? Can you get too much of that? And does % lightning damage and % spell damage stack IF there are diminishing returns?



So. Spell damage is boost for lightning, fire, poison and cold. If you have all element + equal % then game will make it spell damage. I’d say cold is +1 and rest are +2 it will game separate lines for every element.

Elemental, magic and physical SPELL damage on the other hand are different. Sometimes affected by it sometimes not. Read this if you want details and some things are counterintuitive viewtopic.php?t=186
God_of_Magic
Pit Knight
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How do you get the containers for runes? Haven't seen any anywhere.
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Immortal2563
Grubber
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Buy red "potion" from Greed Act1 one for example and mix with normal rune in the cube. U can store 50 runes in the container.
Chance
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Question about Invasion 2: Is Rift storm the Bolt from the sky or the fan lightning?
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God_of_Magic wrote:How do you get the containers for runes? Haven't seen any anywhere.


For items that are able to make clusters or containers the recipe is the item + oil of craft which you can buy from a merchant.
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Immortal2563
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Chance wrote:Question about Invasion 2: Is Rift storm the Bolt from the sky or the fan lightning?


These are the wheels on the ground and when I stand for too long, I get lightning from above.
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Chance wrote:Question about Invasion 2: Is Rift storm the Bolt from the sky or the fan lightning?

The stationary rings on the ground, not the swirly fan-like ones.
Chance
Grubber
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altoiddealer wrote:
Chance wrote:Question about Invasion 2: Is Rift storm the Bolt from the sky or the fan lightning?

The stationary rings on the ground, not the swirly fan-like ones.

I'm happy to hear that. dodging the fan 100% is kinda hell!
chefkoch
Skeleton
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Heyhey.

I'm unable to enter Glacial Trail while leveling and can't progress any further. Does anyone know why? Restarted the game already a few times, with and without D2stats, but nothing helps. I can enter portals and any other area before that point, but my character just won't enter Glacial Trail. :(

e: I can enter Frozen River but can't go back to Crystalline Passage... :flip:
e2: Haha. I can enter every area, as long as I switch to my 2nd weapon slot.
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tarrasqueSorcerer
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I've just returned to the game after several years away, and I'm confused by max skill levels. How do they work now?