The -60% penalty and subsequently inflated elemental resistance values are bad for the game.

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

The affixes need to be reworked then, the resist affixes need to give two times less at least in case of no penalty. Otherwise there would be a massive power creep thanks to the numerous freed affixes.

Yes if the -60% resistance penalty is removed then resistance mods on gear would have to be reduced by ~40%; making the values very similar to chaos resistance values. An actually quite simple change that would be easy to implement alongside a future league launch.