Armor mitigates Physical Damage and Spell Resistance mitigates Spell Damage. A general rule is if it uses Magicka it uses Magic Damage and if it uses Stamina it uses Physical Damage. This is not always the case, however, with several exceptions. The tooltips of abilities will normally state which kind of damage will occur.
Which is more important armor or physical resistance?
I’m trying to build both Alistair and my character as tanks and so I was wondering which of the three of these are more important: armor, physical resistance, or defense? If one item has a higher armor rating than another one but a lower physical resistance boost or defense boost, then which should I opt for?
How is physical resistance applied in Melee Defense?
Physical resistance is applied to damage the unit is hit with, melee defense is how likely the unit is to be hit by an attack. Magic attacks ignore physical resistance and are countered by magical resistance instead.
What does physical resistance mean in bladewind spell?
I know my bladewind spell says “weak vs armor”, so I think they can be armor piercing or non armor piercing, just like regular attacks. Physical resistance is applied to damage the unit is hit with, melee defense is how likely the unit is to be hit by an attack.
What kind of damage does spell resistance do?
The tooltips of abilities will normally state which kind of damage will occur. Armor mitigates Physical Damage including Bleed Damage and most melee close ranged attacks. Spell Resistance mitigates Magic Damage including Flame, Frost, Shock, Disease and Poison Damage.
What’s the difference between fire resistance and magical?
Fire Resistance applies to damage whose source is fire, not to some mystical ‘fire-ness’ of the damage itself. Similarly, magical is a type of damage source, not a type of actual damage. Fireball does damage, sourced from fire, also sourced from magic.
What’s the cap for spell resistance in RuneScape?
I have 16,885 Spell Resistance. No, the number (18k) is just a representation of your damage mitigation which is a percent reduction of incoming damage. So the cap is 50% reduction in damage and this is set at around 33,000 Armor / Spell Resistance. If you have 18,000 Armor then you’ll have roughly 27% reduction to incoming damage.
