Shadow Resistance reduces incoming Shadow damage by X%. This applies to both direct Shadow damage and Shadow damage over time.
Shadow is an Elemental Damage type introduced in Diablo IV, appearing as a purplish glow. The Rogue is able to imbue offense skills with Shadow Damage by lacing weapons with cursed oils. Enemies being killed while cursed with Shadow trigger an area of effect (AoE).
Elixirs are consumable items that give your Character specific buffs for a 30-minute duration. These can include different Resistances, increase your Attack Speed, and every Elixir increases your Experience gain by a percentage for the entire duration. Keeping a steady supply of Elixirs in your "Consumables" tab is a sure-fire way to blast through the leveling progression and min-max your Character for difficult content. You may only have one Elixir active at a time and they don't expire on Character death.
| Name | Requires | Description | Recipe |
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| Weak Elixir of Shadow Resistance | Level 15 | Increases Shadow Resist by 15% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes. |
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| Elixir of Shadow Resistance | Level 45 | Increases Shadow Resist by 20% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes. |
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| Strong Elixir of Shadow Resistance | Level 60 | Increases Shadow Resist by 25% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes. |
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| Potent Elixir of Shadow Resistance | Level 75 | Increases Shadow Resist by 32% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes. |
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| Heady Elixir of Shadow Resistance | Level 90 | Increases Shadow Resist by 40% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes. |
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| Name | Description | Requires |
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| Crude Amethyst |
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Level 15 |
| Chipped Amethyst |
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Level 20 |
| Amethyst |
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Level 40 |
| Flawless Amethyst |
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Level 50 |
| Royal Amethyst |
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Level 60 |
In Diablo 4, because of the mechanical, we made sure the item the player has a certain amount of damage and mitigation against the physical damage. But then, we found out some monsters are doing non-physical damage. And that caused trouble for the player. For example, there’s a dungeon boss that only deals Shadow damage. And that caused some serious balance problems for the encounter team, because people who have a reasonable amount of Shadow resistance, that boss is not that hard. But some people, when they have zero Shadow resistance, the boss is almost unbeatable. They will always get one shot for this boss. And players at low levels, they might not have access to as much Shadow resistance.
So to solve this problem, what we did is we made some change to the armor system. So armor not only absorb or mitigate incoming physical damage, we also make it absorb a certain amount of non-physical damage. For whatever percentage the armor of the physical damage, it also absorbs half of the that amount of non-physical damage. For example, your armor absorbs 60 physical damage, so your armor will also absorb 30 percent of all the non-physical damage.
So fire damage, shatter damage, so on? Exactly. And because of this,
people know getting some amount of mitigation against non-physical damage. So that shadow boss is still challenging for people with zero Shadow resistance, but it’s in a much more controllable way.
| Name | Category | Resource Cost | Upgraded Effect |
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| Weak Assault Elixir | Magic Elixir | Gallowvine x12 Lifesbane x6 1,000 Gold | Increases Attack Speed by 7% and Experience by 3% for 30 minutes. Requires Level 20 |
| Weak Elixir of Cold Resistance | Magic Elixir | Gallowvine x10 Biteberry x6 1,000 Gold | Increases Cold Resist by 15% and Experience by 3% for 30 minutes. Requires Level 15 |
| Weak Elixir of Fire Resistance | Magic Elixir | Gallowvine x10 Lifesbane x6 1,000 Gold | Increases Fire Resist by 15% and Experience by 3% for 30 minutes. Requires Level 15 |
| Weak Elixir of Lightning Resistance | Magic Elixir | Gallowvine x10 Reddamine x6 1,000 Gold | Increases Lightning Resist by 15% and Experience by 3% for 30 minutes. Requires Level 20 |
| Weak Elixir of Poison Resistance | Magic Elixir | Gallowvine x10 Howler Moss x6 1,000 Gold | Increases Poison Resist by 15% and Experience by 3% for 30 minutes. Requires Level 15 |
| Weak Elixir of Shadow Resistance | Magic Elixir | Gallowvine x10 Blightshade x6 2,500 Gold | Increases Shadow Resist by 15% and Experience by 3% for 30 minutes. Requires Level 15 |
| Weak Third Eye Elixir | Magic Elixir | Gallowvine x8 Howler Moss x5 1,000 Gold | Increases Dodge by 5% and Experience by 3% for 30 minutes. Requires Level 10 |
| Weak Iron Barb Elixir | Magic Elixir | Gallowvine x5 Biteberry x5 1,000 Gold | Increases Armor by 100, Thorns by 50, and Experience by 3% for 30 minutes. Requires Level 5 |
| Name | Requires | Description |
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| Soothing Spices | Level 75 | Use: Increases all resistances by 10% and armor by 150 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes. This is a type II incense. Only one Incense of a type may be active at a time. |
| Desert Escape | Level 55 | Use: Increases Fire and Shadow Resistances by 7.5% and armor by 75 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes. This is a type I incense. Only one Incense of a type may be active at a time. |
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