Elemental Resists in PvP

Anyone feel as if your resists almost do nothing for you in HLD? I'm capped plus in the 220s with everything except chaos, yet all my duels vs elemental damage seem one sided affairs.

An example, last night I dueled a RF/LMP Incenerate Scion who practically melted me in 5secs. Granted, I have 220 fireres, with 234 life regen.... I asked him how much Fire Pen he had, "just one, 20% in my 5l Incenerate.


Sigh.....thoughts from the PvP community?

You effectively had under 60 max resists because of 20% penetration and the fact its flat. Your 220 resists mean nothing unless you're facing some real form of resistence reduction. I don't know what your max fire is but for example sake we'll say its 75.

You had 75max + 145 over capped giving you 220 resists.
He penetrated 20 of that max so you're now at 55max + your overcap....anything beyond your max has 0 affect on the damage you take. If he had 35 penetrating you'd effectively have 40max resists as your only defense against the element. Makes your efforts to max those resists out seem pretty wasted no? Plus the new PvP damage formula favors elemental DMG. Apparently no one put two and two together, you know....elemental dmg is generally paired with huge crit chance/multipliers in the form of spells. Spells are rarely dodgable, only blockable and never miss plus have penetration. So why wouldnt that formula be more leniant then the physical/chaos one, haha. Its harsher toward chaos/physical even though we already have immortal call.

Not sure what your build is but Arctic Armour can be pretty effective vs incinerate if you have the mana regeneration to sustain it for a little while.

For other elemental abilities the purity auras can help raise your max resistance and there are a few unique that can raise your max resists as well.

With that said vs some skills having 75 or 90 max resist dosnt seem to make a bit of difference EA for example I die just as fast with 90 fire res as I do with 75.

penetration gems treat your resists as if they weren't overcapped, so your 200 overcap res will only help you vs stuff like ele curses or EE.

Well I do run Purity of Elements in the first round, along with Hatred/HoA. If I find out my opponnent doesnt do effective ele dmg, i switch gems/gear out.

I feel as if Physical Dmg is so gimped compared to Elemental, even when it comes to weapons. I was dueling a Leapslam Spammer and didnt have much hard time with him until the second round. He switched to Using Molten Strike spam and I got owned every round after....

Guess a 25k cyclone tooltip//4.8k hp is not enough....

Do players have 0 or -60 in elemental resistances in pvp (without items and passives)?

Edit: Thank you, Tommie!

LLD: 0%
HLD: -60%

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4.8K HP is alot fi you also got acro/block/shield however if you got neither, you most probably want more life. Also as Lord said you might want to try get more DPS than 25,000 for HLD. It's not shit by any means, but the more the better.