-158% resistance!

[Uncle Shags]

How much damage is that?!

 

Long story short, I pulled two or three groups of Longbow and almost crapped myself when my health dropped unexpectedly. I looked at my stats and my smashing resistance was at -158%!

 

So I looked it up and of course longbow has all sorts of -res attacks.  Which is fine. The game should be challenging. I was being reckless - I don't have much resistance debuff resistance so I was asking for it. I just hadn't encountered that much -res before. 

 

I guess the question I have is:

 

How much damage is that?!

 

Let's say an attack does 100 damage to me with my normal 50% smashing resistance. How much would it do if I had -158% smashing resistance?

 

One MILLION?! 

[Vanden]

It's about 158% more damage than normal

[Uncle Shags]

5 minutes ago, Vanden said:

It's about 158% more damage than normal

I think that would be if I had 0% damage resistance to start? 

[Uncle Shags]

God I'm bad with math... 

So my napkin tells me to add the 50% to the 158%.

100% more would be double, so 200% would be triple. 

So 100 dmg becomes 316 dmg?  I think?

[Psyonico]

3 hours ago, Uncle Shags said:

God I'm bad with math... 

So my napkin tells me to add the 50% to the 158%.

100% more would be double, so 200% would be triple. 

So 100 dmg becomes 316 dmg?  I think?

You’ve got to kind of work backwards…

so with 50% resistance if you get hit for 100 damage, that means with 0% resistance you would have gotten hit for 200 damage.

 

now you can take that 200 damage and multiply it by 158% giving you… 316 damage.

 

yes, your way works too.  Math is hard.

 

and don’t forget, resistance resists resistance debuffs.  So at 50% resistance, you resist 50% of resistance debuffs

[Uun]

Math notwithstanding, you should be aware that Longbow Wardens that have an unresistible version of Enervating Field. If you're faced with a Warden with Radiation powers, kill them immediately.

[Uncle Shags]

It could be worse.  Word on the street is, when you go into negative for defense you're not only auto hit, you also hit yourself for extra damage.

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Uncle Shags