Singularity Resistance too low

[WindDemon21]

I remember on live it had capped resistances at 90% to all, and 100% to Psi damage, which is the very reasoning why it is not affected by heals at all. Something has bugged in the interim and its only listing as 50% resistances, which outside of smashing damage is lower than even the animate stone. It's controllery aspect is the offset of the generally much lower/less usable controls that gravity has so isn't and never did play a factor in its resistances. That was always the reason that it was unable to be healed which is a pretty big gimp if it doesn't have those capped resistances.

 

Tested last night, 7 even level carnie minnions killed it pretty easily, when it was in the middle even with the kb-kd proc in it. Next a +1 malta zeus titan boss (not kronos) killed it in no joke 5 seconds. This should definitely not be, and was not, the case on live when it had capped resistances, and needs fixed asap.

Edited October 4, 2019 by WindDemon21

[Uun]

Singy has had 50% resistance to S/L/F/C/E/En and 100% (capped at 90%) to Psi/Tx since I believe 2005 (they increased it in I4 and decreased it in I5). I've been playing grav trollers since 2004 and wrote a guide back on the live forums. If I can track down a copy I'll see if I said anything about it.

[WindDemon21]

I've been playing mine through 3 different iterations since 2004 as well and there is no way. Before the kb-kd proc even I would cast him near the mob and he'd tank it easily against decently tough mobs. The whole reason it can't be healed is specifically why it had those capped resistances. Otherwise it's way too big of a drawback to not being able to heal it if its not.

 

IIRC it may have been lower at start, but then when they made it so you can only have one at a time I believe is when it was set to capped resistance but could be wrong on that timing. At any rate if it can't be healed it needs that capped resitance as that was always its trade-off.

 

I'm not the only one who's noticed this as well, within a minute or two last night had three other people who also noticed this. There was no way for a non heal-able pet that he died within 5 seconds from just one +1 boss. I used to specifically test him on live for this.

Edited October 4, 2019 by WindDemon21
typo

[Uun]

Just confirmed that my 2007 guide cited the 50% resistance values above. BTW, I've had no issue with Singy getting killed. Tanks bosses solo quite easily.

[WindDemon21]

Clearly as I just stated a +1 boss killed it in about 5 seconds that's not really true. Sure it may be more resilient than other pets but its inability to be healed is far outweighs that in many circumstances.

 

I did find where there was a change back in issue 6 but there were no values listed and I couldn't find a lot of later issues, so bottom line that at one point it definitely was, and in today's game especially since it's not able to be healed its resistances should be brought back up to compensate.

[Redlynne]

Slot the two +Resist aura procs for Pets into it.