Elemental Resistance

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Here's a comprehensive list of everything in the game that provides Elemental Resistance. These give resistance against the Hot, Cold, Spooky , Stench and/or Sleaze elements, reducing damage from these elements and allowing you to pass elemental barriers such as those in the Daily Dungeon.

Slime, Shadow, and Bad spelling look like elemental damage but do not fit into the five-element scheme. They are not reduced by effects that offer protection from "all elements," including Mysticality classes' innate resistance bonus. Slime damage is reduced by special Slime Resistance effects, which follow the same rules and are calculated in the same way as the elemental resistance effects described below. There is no known way to reduce shadow or bad spelling damage.

Resistance Levels

Items and effects give various strengths of elemental resistance; ranging from weakest to strongest, they are:

The sum of all elemental resistances results in a net resistance level for each element, which is listed on the player's character sheet. When a player takes damage of an element that he is resistant to, it is reduced by a percentage based on the Elemental Resistance level. If the base damage is below 30, it is treated as if it were 30 damage. So if a player has 1 level of Hot resistance, which provides 10% resistance, and would take 5 Hot damage, it is reduced by 10% of 30, which is 3, so the player would take 2 Hot damage.

This chart shows the character sheet names and percentage of damage reduced for the different resistance levels:

Mysticality classes receive an extra 5% resistance above what is given by their resistance level in the above chart. For example, with Considerable resistance, they would have 45% resistance instead of 40%; with Incredibly High resistance, they would have 93.43% resistance instead of 88.43%. This bonus applies only to damage received, and not on/off tests like in the Daily Dungeon.

Percentage elemental resistance must be calculated from the resistance level using a piecewise function, due to diminishing returns. If R is the net rating on the character sheet, and M is 5 for Myst classes and 0 otherwise, then:

• for R ≤ 3, %res = 10 × R + M
• for R > 3, %res = 90 - 50 × (5/6)^{R - 4} + M

Note that five elemental powder potions, while not strictly imparting elemental resistance, grant turns where the imbiber is sympathetic to the element of the potion; that is, all of the potion-drinker's (and familiar's) damage output will be of that element, and damage done to the drinker follows elemental damage rules. The five powder effects are Coldform, Hotform, Sleazeform, Spookyform, and Stenchform.

Regular Resistance Items

Most of the resistance-imparting items in the game raise one or more elemental resistances by a constant amount.

Special Resistance Items

Some effects go against the grain and "reduce" elemental resistance, or impart variable resistance. The Bad Moon effects have no noticeable effect on listed resistances, but increase the damage taken after resistances have been applied.

See Also

• Elements

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