A Perfectionist’s Guide to Max Resist
By Mikayla

Ring

This is the only gear type that truly differs and allows Ice to achieve more resist than the other schools. The highest possible resist ring for Ice is Elissa’s Chill Band, which you can find from several enemies in Zafaria. This ring will give you 3% resist.

The highest possible resist ring for Balance is called the Band of Harmony, which you can get from the Temple Guardian and the Temple Phantom (wooden key boss)  in the Hollow Mountain. This ring will give you 2% resist.

Finally, every other school has to use Hathi’s Victory Band, which can be farmed from several enemies in Zafaria or purchased at the bazaar. This ring will give you 1% resist.

Pet

In order to reach the max universal resist, you will need a true 21% universal resist pet. When a pet has a true level for a talent, it means that the talent’s amount will not be rounded up in the display (for example, 20.5% will display as 21% when it’s actually not 21%).

You can do this by using spell proof and spell defying with selfish talents that boost strength, agility, and even power. In order to reach this level of resist, you need at close to the maximum pet stats for strength, agility and power. However, you DO NOT need to have a fully max stat pet. The pet used for this guide is not a max stat pet and it reaches true 21% universal resist.

List of some of the needed talents:

• Mighty
• Unshakeable
• Tenacious
• Powerful
• Relentless

Resist pet

Recommended Pets

Ultimately, the pet that you use is up to you, depending on what cards you’d like to have. However, there do exist some pets that might be ideal to use.

Deck

This is where it gets interesting, as the deck is completely optional. For those that craft, you can craft a deck in Darkmoor that gives you 2% shadow resist. While this doesn’t add to your universal resist, it would allow two schools (ice and balance) to be immune to shadow and every other school to be nearly immune to shadow. If you don’t want the extra shadow resist, you can use any deck that you want. I personally crafted the square socket one to give me more flat resist but giving the triangle socket one for pip chance or accuracy might also be viable. This deck isn’t that easy to craft as you need several items that might be hard to obtain, such as the motes from the four dungeon. It also requires you to fish for a rather rare death pet that only spawns in a few locations, such as Darkmoor.

It should be noted that you must be a transcendent crafter in order to purchase the recipe for the deck. You can find guides on the crafting quests and other related articles here.

Flat Resist

Since the goal of this is to reduce as much damage as possible, one could even add flat resist. Flat resist will take take damage off from spell that hit you BEFORE your resist reduces the damage that you take. For instance, if a spell hits you for 1000 damage (assuming no blades or weaknesses and that you don’t have any shields) and you have 50% resist and 50 flat resist, the spell will hit you for 475 damage. A simple formula that you can use to find how the damage you will take is calculated:

Damage_Taken = (Amount_That_Is_Hitting_You - Flat_Resist) * (1 - Your_Resist/100)

For example, if we use the numbers given in the brief explanation, we can find out how much damage that we will take:

Damage_Taken = (1000 - 50) * (1 - 0.5) = 475 damage

While that doesn’t seem like a huge change, this also allows you to be effectively immune (you’ll take zero damage) to spells that hit you for any damage that’s equal or less than your flat resist amount. Flat resist jewels are square sockets and the current highest tier gives 27 flat resist at level 125+.

Overview of the Gear by School

How close to immunity are you?

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