My noob questions thread

I have Skin of the Vipermagi armor with +31 all resists. I have a Rockstopper helm with +34% lightning resist. Character stats show lightning resist 35, poison resist 1.

I don't understand why the stats are so low.|||Are you wearing them?

Another item is lowering your resists? (there is atleast 1, Nightsmoke?)

NM/Hell difficulty?|||You receive negative resists penalty in NM and Hell -40 and -100 respectively. anya quest offsets that by +10 for each time you complete it.

So in NM for light you have +65 gear, +10 anya, -40 NM penalty = 35|||You are in NM difficulty. You have also saved Anya on Normal, so your base resists are -30 right now. Once you get to Hell (assuming you save Anya again in NM) your resists will be -80. If you save her again in Hell, they will be -70.

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You receive negative resists penalty in NM and Hell -40 and -100 respectively. anya quest offsets that by +10 for each time you complete it.

So in NM for light you have +65 gear, +10 anya, -40 NM penalty = 35




Yikes. Is it possible to get good resists in NM/Hell without loading up on charms?|||Of course...just look for gear with resistance bonuses. Sheilds are a great place to start. 3xPDiamond in a shield is good for +57 resistall, and is cheap...

WoRG|||Resistance charms are still good though. So long as you're not melee most of your charms will end up being skillers/life/res/mf |||Rare gloves, belts and boots can also spawn with fairly decent resists. You can also role a prismatic amulet (16-20 All resist) using a cube recipe (6 Perfect Gems (1 of each type) + 1 Amulet (Magic) = Prismatic Amulet)|||Look for some shimmering charms with +all resist on them. Its a trick trying to keep good resists while having other bonuses like plus skills and FCR on your gear. Wait until you get to Hell, resists are even harder to keep high. I am still using the Rockstopper in Hell as well as the Vampire Magi.|||Unfortunately, finding shimmering charms is almost impossible before you're in Hell and even then the odds aren't great. IMO, you should keep any small charm with 7% resist to an element. I think 11% is the highest you can find, but anything higher than 7% is usually worth the space in your inventory. My ATMA stash is full of them so I can slap them on my characters as soon as they reach the higher difficulties. Ideally, you'll eventually wanna work with shimmering small charms so you'll have more inventory space for skillers, but when you're starting out that's not realistic.

With items like Wizardspike and Stormshield, it's entirely possible to have maxed resists in Hell without any resist charms (my LK/Cows runner is maxed from gear alone, for example) but making charms a significant source for resists helps a ton.