Resistance

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For the ego found on robes and shields, see resistance (ego). Monsters and players may have resistances against various types of damage; these are a subcategory of intrinsics.

Types of resistance

There are five "major" resistances. These are commonly granted by items, spells, or species-specific or random mutations:

The degrees to which characters may have resistance to these elements vary from resistance to resistance:

  • Fire/cold resistance: can vary from rF/rC--- to rF/rC+++. Having any level of vulnerability increases damage done by 50% from missile attacks and 100% from melee attacks and clouds, but a character with rF--- will take no more damage from fire attacks than a character with rF-. All player sources of resistance/vulnerability stack.
  • Negative energy resistance: can vary from none to rN+++. All sources stack, and rN+++ provides complete immunity. Vulnerability does not exist.
  • Electricty resistance: Player can only have one level, rElec, which provides 66% damage reduction. Vulnerability does not exist, and sources do not stack.
  • The player can have four levels: rPois-, none, rPois, or rPois+++. Vulnerability is only obtained by being in Spider Form, while immunity (rPois+++) is only obtained by being undead, including being in lichform. Sources of rPois do not generally stack. The one exception to this is that poison vulnerability and poison resistance will cancel each other out to leave a character with no resistance.

Damage reduction

Monsters and players with resistance will take less damage (or no damage) from a resisted attack. Some attacks are only partly resisted – for instance, only 45% of the damage from Fire Storm will have resistance (or vulnerability) applied to it.

Resistance is more effective vs. Sticky Flame, electrical attacks, and miasma.

The damage reduction for players is:

Resistance level Damage taken Dam. vs. sticky/elec./mias.
1 50% 33%
2 33% 25%
3 20% 17%

Note that players can only ever gain one level of electricity resistance. Monsters, however, can have more than one.

Monsters' resistance is more effective:

Resistance level Damage taken Dam. vs. sticky/elec./mias.
1 50% 33%
2 20% 17%
3 0% 0%

It is also possible for the player to be vulnerable (i.e., to have negative resistance) to fire, cold, or poison. Monsters can be vulnerable to fire, cold, poison, and electricity, and evil creatures (including the player, if undead, demonspawn, or in lichform) are vulnerable to cleansing flame. Vulnerability (of any degree) causes a creature to take 150% normal damage from missiles and 200% damage from all other attacks.

Life protection is handled differently: each level reduces damage taken by a third, meaning level 3 provides total immunity to draining and necromancy. Torment is also resisted by life protection, using yet another formula.

Gaining Resistances

  • Quaffing a potion of resistance will give you one level of fire, cold, electricity and poison resistance for a while.
  • Various dragon hides or armours, as well as other ego armour, will provide various major or minor resistances if worn.
  • Most resistances (not electricity) can be gained by wearing particular (standard) items of jewellery.
  • Artifacts may provide one or more resistances, including electricity resistance and some of the "minor resistances" below.
  • All major resistances can be gained through a corresponding mutation (although only demonspawn can gain the life protection mutation).
  • Some species have racial resistances or vulnerabilities. Notably, all the playable undead races have at least Cold Resistance 1, Life Protection 3, Poison Resistance, and Immunity To Torment.
  • Many spells in the Transmutations school provide assorted resistances along with their other, more dramatic effects.

Minor Resistances

There are also a few "minor" resistances which come from specific items or species characteristics.

History

  • Elemental resistances for players were nerfed in 0.6.
  • Poison resistance for living characters was nerfed to only provide 90% protection against poisonous melee attacks in 0.10.