A Complete Guide to Resistances in Path of Exile 

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Ohhhhhhhh, now I understand. Thanks.

Great job mate, well presented. New players are going to appreciate your help a lot

There is also a non intuitive relationship between linear gains in damage reduction to exponential gains in survivability. Example, assume you have 4k health and take get hit with a 4k unmitigated hit. At 0 res you are one shot. At 25 res you take 3k damage but need to be hit twice to die. At 50 res, you again need to be hit twice. At 75, its now 1k a hit and requires 4 hits to die. See how a linear step of 25 didn't change the number of hits to die but all of a sudden it doubled? Now at 90 which is less than a linear step you take 400 damage and now need 10 hits to die. It's not a linear scaling stat, the more you have the far more powerful it becomes.

Just what i was looking for, the perfect lecture for the next and all upcoming leagues, thank u Tenkei.

@Tenkei. I absolutely love the series and how you break down things and explain. One thing I've always wanted as a fairly new player is a death log from GGG. Now, that's not gonna happen any time soon, so I think we are relying on people who actually understand the game enough to teach it to others, such like yourself. It would be great if in the near future, you could teach us the thought process between me dying to a random "thing" in the map, to identifying it and modifying my defences accordingly. I think that would be of great value to all people that are just following builds, without understanding how to fix certain things when the build failes them due to new mods/mechanics. I think learning how to fix things and therefore progress in POE is what will keep us playing, instead of rage-quitting like most players do. Thank you for doing this. You are an absolute star. Ovi. PS: That interview you did with James? An absolute banger. I love you even more now!!!

Thank you very much for the detailed and clear explanation!

Huge fan of your content and your approaching to teaching and explaining this game. Fantastic voice also.

Thank you very much! One never stops learning with this game.

Fantastic video.....keep this up....learned a ton of information. BRAVO

it might be an interesting video idea to speak to a new player about poe to get a better sense of their struggles. i've watched plenty of guides by now but they tend to focus around the same few things, maybe im not searching the right terms or dont know the right terms to search, but there is still some fundamental knowledge that i believe i am lacking in

GGG should hire you to do an POE education series. Please keep going!

I like watching this kind of content, even with a lot of time in the game, and with a solid understanding of these concepts (I've made content on the topic). However, I still often pick up little tidbits. For example, I didn't know there was a hard cap of -200 resistance to a given element. Cheers!

Great series Tenkiei. Yet another auto-thumbs up.

I'd love to understand how endurance charges and the juggernaut works with mitigation of elemental damage

That one sentence makes everything else click into place. GGG Balances the game and damage enemies do, based off everyone having 75% resist. Thank you so much!

excellent work doing these educational series! im looking forward to see a video about how can a character solve the issues of : reflected damage, unaffected by curses, can not be stunned, ailment immunity,reduced/no extra damage from critical strikes, maim,hinder,silence, bleeding,corrupted blood... pre acquiring mageblood is a very annoying time period.i understand that we can not have all of em, most high quant maps will have - max res, cursed by ele weakness, mobs have inc crit multi,chance, can not regen. archenemies and zappers made those mobs feel like bosses. what i just said might need like 10 videos, just giving you feedback from a somewhat new player wanting to enjoy poe but find myself playing builds that are able to solve most of the issues mentioned above. thanks for your effort of making content man. cheers

At this point i'm just craving poe content, i'm Glad tenki is churning these out everyday

This is my first season playing RF...and playing jugg. I'm lvl 80 right now and my resistances are crap. Should I sacrifice a bit of damage on gear to up then or just rely on purity of elements?

Great job with video. In another video would you beable to add on brief explanation of X damage taken as another damage type. Why or when you want to have these type of bonuses. Example 5 lightning taken as physical .

Hi I appreciate these videos, I only started in Archnemesis first levelling experience was rough without knowing about resistances :) Do you think you could do a video in this series about how to know what bases are worth picking up depending on your build? It feels confusing as to what items can roll what stats or atleast it feels like that. I find that one of the most confusing things when building gear, I tried making my own filter and have just been playing SSF to try figure more things out by playing slowly and not relying on trading which I struggle to get currency for anyway haha

Do you recommend buffing your resistances using passive skills from the tree, or solely from gear? I don't want to mess my build up, but the resistance buffs on the passive tree are very tempting.

Hello i have a question please my character start with -60% all and when I put lightning res it don’t up more than 4% I’m wrong with something ?

Already the best series about game mechs and build making. Ty

Ground effects not being able to penetrate resistances is correct but it's definitely worth noting that they CAN apply debuffs that lower your resistances or maximum resistances, for example the Sirus ground effect "Desolation of the Awakener" makes you take fire, physical. lightning and chaos damage over time but also reduces the maximum of those resistances by I believe 10%, which effectively is 10% penetration

thanks for this

I didn't know penetration acted on your cap, explains why exposure exists so that dot based ele builds can benefit from reduced enemy resistances. Also explains why it's so strong on builds

TY, that explains why I needed 118% Electrical Resistance to defeat Dominus; but it does seem very misleading to indicate to players that Resistance is capped at 75% when in fact you need far more than 75% and the real number of your resistance is the (118%) and the 75% is basically fictional. I know your not a Dev, and are in no way responsible for that bit of Brain Pollution, but I do thank you for flushing it out of my head.

A small correction for around 3:55. GGG only balance the endgame content around 75% elemental resistances. The acts and other non endgame areas are not balanced around this value.

If I may recommend something, it would be so that feed with your face was smaller or placed somewhere else (maybe top right corner?) - for whatever reason, combination of size and positioning made it very distracting (for me at least). Are you going to make a similar video on armour?

For melding of the flesh can the ele res be determined by the chaos res?

There doesnt seem to be any chapters or sections in this video. Is this just me? Or does it take time for those to apply on youtubes end?

Additional graphics when doing math like this would really help the clarity of the video.

Is it recommended to take nodes for additional resistances and/or over-capping resistance nodes as a general rule early on when gear is insufficient? Should getting to 75+ be #1 priority?

How does incandecent heart + CI works if you have 75% elemental resist? Does that mean you are immune to 25% of the monsters elemental damage?

how does rat cage ( fire dmg taken as pysical) ineract with chieftain pysical takes as fire? does it double convert dmg taken or will it only convert once? not that iam thinking about using rat cage but maybe they buff it^^

When is it worth a passive point to increase max res by 1%? I don't know whether this is a good deal.

Cool series. I am going to make a boss immortal build next league and I might make my very first video about it, showing off the unused mechanics that can make that happen. Is that being hit by both both double flameblast from Uber atziri in the feared, 0 damage taken.

Question: If you have multiple multiplicative reductions and increases, how does the game resolve this?

Pog vid

What do you think about Wind Ward node from Deadeye? I personally think that it's pretty underrated, but when I start talking about that to anybody, they says it's simply not worth of allocating

Lets goooooo

please do more episodes

what is that red large aura around u in the gameplay

hey ,why do i have 0 on all resistances even if i have gear with resistances? i am in act 4 :( ... omg nevermind , i found why, i had a helmet which gave me all resistancez zero , lool im dumb af

What you say is useful and I know that editing takes a lot of effort and time but consider using power point presentation or some static images presenting few items with different resistance mods and not a writeout on moving background with similar color.

I get my resistance. I’ve seen what the impact is when I don’t have enough. My problem is the monsters resistance. My Tooltips, RF 189k / Fire trap 239k. Elemental weakness curse and wave of conviction exposure. When this hits an enemy that “resists fire” it appears that it means immune to fire. I can stand in their face and drop 10+ traps right on them and they take damage like I’m a level 1 and they are Thanos. Gold and blue monsters are just roaming bosses it seems. Maybe one day I will figure it out.

first time see your face :D

Spelling out the fact that a 1000 damage fireball is set as 4000 damage in game, therefore a 25% reduction is equal to double damage. I actually didn't understand that basic fact the entire time I've been playing the game..... TY and I am so dumb lol.

Some really great info in the guide here, very well done. There are a number of times where your script could use a little tweaking to make it more new player friendly though. I feel like it has a habit of going on a tangent and talking about late-game items or specific abilities. It's useful to note these but they are brought up in places that are aimed at new players so a bit superfluous. Would love to go over your script and make a few tweaks.

For anyone wondering, you chaos resistance goes down 30% after act 5 and then another 30% later. It's because of the acts not your build.

WAIT!! This video says nothing about the resistances that monsters have! Specifically: - Say there's a spell X that deals 100 physical damage, and another spell Y that deals 100 fire damage. - Would I be better off using Spell X and casting Vulnerability? Or should I use spell Y, and cast flammability???

Wat if I have 74 ?

“Things POE doesn’t want you to know” the series

imo 75% is just not enough anymore with how hard the game has gotten over the past few leagues

if shaper balls penetrate 25% of cold cap, it is 75% x 0.25 = 18,75% get penetrated/ignored for calculation, not 25%. I know u just explained it, but for me it sounds wrong. Maybe that just a PoE thing idk :D

Some beginners would soak this up like a sponge but i might have to watch this video another two or three times , i thought i was bossing the game until i started getting leach or bleed proc's on me 🤣🤣🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

"Why you need 90 resistence and spell block or suppresion on top of it"

Let's stop talking about resistances. The face reveal was the biggest thing this video :D. This channel is one of the best Poe channels out there. Thank you very much.

lol no wonder im dying left and right

Looks like levelcap started playing poe and dyed his hair....

i don't get enough resistance for the story after act 5 and they wipe the floor with my ass lol

Why 75% when i can get 89%.. 75 is rookie numbers :P

Too big camera for that what happening to the game thats my opinion

Why you need 75 resistance. Me with melding of the flesh: wait all you need is 75?

I now understand why you always do voice-overs, instead of live video. That curtain is hideous.

As a person that learned everything you say in this video - the hard way might I ad - this is a bad video. The information is correct, but the way it is presented makes it useless.