Have at least 75% resistance to Fire, Cold, and Lightning.
Resistances affect the amount of damage taken of specific damage types when all avoidance forms have failed. Enemies can also have resistances, which are indicated beneath their life bar. Each damage type except physical has its own resistance value which is viewable on the Defence tab in the Character panel (default hotkey C). Physical damage is mitigated by armour (against hits) and physical damage reduction.
Chaos damage is not elemental, thus "+% to all Elemental Resistances" does not affect chaos, but "+% to all maximum Resistances" does. Chaos resistance can be modified by items and passive skills. The Keystone passive skill Chaos Inoculation grants total immunity to Chaos damage.
Maximum Fire/Lightning/Cold/Chaos resistances are soft capped at 75% but can be increased by sources of increased Maximum Resistances Maximum Fire/Lightning/Cold/Chaos resistances are hard capped at 90%
Negative resistances are hard capped at -200%. The effects of x% reduced Resistance(s) is capped at 100%.
Each resistance has the following default cap:
Maximum resistances can be increased or reduced to hard caps of 90% and -200% respectively. Exceeding these values will not provide additional benefits/downsides, but will provide a buffer against the opposite stat (a character with +20% maximum resistances from items will effectively go from 75% to 90% max res, and can ignore up to 5% max res reduction from debuffs and/or map modifiers).
There are various ways to alter the maximum resistances:
| Name | Tier | Mods |
|---|---|---|
| Corruption Chamber | 1 | -6% maximum Player Resistances |
| Catalyst of Corruption | 2 | -8% maximum Player Resistances |
| Locus of Corruption | 3 | -10% maximum Player Resistances |
| Name | Generation Type | Stats | Spawn Weighting | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| of Unravelling | Suffix | 78 | -4% maximum Player Resistances per 25% Alert Level | default 1000 |
| HellscapeUpsideMaximumColdResistance1_ | Scourge Benefit | 68 | +1% to maximum Cold Resistance | shield 100 |
| HellscapeUpsideMaximumLightningResistance1_ | Scourge Benefit | 68 | +1% to maximum Lightning Resistance | shield 100 |
| of the Deathless | Suffix | 81 | +2% to all maximum Resistances | shield 125 |
| MaximumFireResistanceEldritchEldritchImplicit5 | Searing Exarch | 75 | +3% to maximum Fire Resistance | no_tier_2_eldritch_implicit 0 body_armour 600 |
| MaximumColdResistanceEldritchEldritchImplicit3 | Searing Exarch | 75 | +2% to maximum Cold Resistance | no_tier_4_eldritch_implicit 0 body_armour 600 |
| MaximumColdResistanceEldritchEldritchImplicit5 | Searing Exarch | 75 | +3% to maximum Cold Resistance | no_tier_2_eldritch_implicit 0 body_armour 600 |
| Item | Max Fire | Max Cold | Max Lightning | Max Chaos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melding of the Flesh | (-6–4) | (-6–4) | (-6–4) | 0 |
| Sublime Vision | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Kaltenhalt | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Circle of Anguish | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Circle of Fear | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Circle of Regret | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Eternal Damnation | -5 | -5 | -5 | -5 |
| Fleshcrafter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Saffell’s Frame | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Aegis Aurora | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Apep’s Slumber | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Apep’s Supremacy | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Glimpse of Chaos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Brine Crown | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Rise of the Phoenix | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Brass Dome | (1-5) | (1-5) | (1-5) | 0 |
| Agnerod South | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Ahn’s Heritage | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Leadership’s Price | (-3-3) | (-3-3) | (-3-3) | 0 |
| The Grey Spire | (1-4) | (1-4) | (1-4) | (1-4) |
| Item | Effect(s) |
|---|---|
| Honoured Tattoo of the Barbarian | Grants "+1% to maximum Cold Resistance +1 to Maximum Frenzy Charges" |
| Honoured Tattoo of the Makanga | Grants "+2% to all maximum Resistances" |
| Honoured Tattoo of the Mountain | Grants "+1% to maximum Fire Resistance +1 to Maximum Endurance Charges" |
| Honoured Tattoo of the Storm | Grants "+1% to maximum Lightning Resistance +1 to Maximum Power Charges" |
| Tattoo of the Arohongui Makanga | Grants "+1% to maximum Cold Resistance" |
| Tattoo of the Ngamahu Makanga | Grants "+1% to maximum Fire Resistance" |
| Tattoo of the Valako Makanga | Grants "+1% to maximum Lightning Resistance" |