A Complete Guide to Resistances in Path of Exile

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 ?

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 🤣🤣🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

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

Why 75% when i can get 89%..

75 is rookie numbers :P

Wat if I have 74 ?

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

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

lol no wonder im dying left and right

Thank you very much for the detailed and clear explanation!

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.

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

please do more episodes

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.

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?

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.

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

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!

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 .

you need 75 or you'll die. basic

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

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?

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

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

Pog vid

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

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?

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

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.

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

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?

Why you sound like a girl bro, I can see you are not, it's so confusing

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.

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

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

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

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???

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Fantastic video.....keep this up....learned a ton of information. BRAVO <3

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

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

Great series Tenkiei. Yet another auto-thumbs up.

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!