So a T1 just dropped this...

RNG be wild'n

FerociousTerrier wrote: 4 hours ago

Fingers crossed for a good roll!

Well, I already have this one so I might leave it latent and list it for sale. Looks like they're currently going for Jah

Rhaegar86 wrote: 4 hours ago

FerociousTerrier wrote: 4 hours ago

Fingers crossed for a good roll!

Well, I already have this one so I might leave it latent and list it for sale. Looks like they're currently going for Jah

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This one is medium. A -9 or -10 magic would suit you better. I would roll it if I were you.

mikelessar wrote: 3 hours ago

Rhaegar86 wrote: 4 hours ago

FerociousTerrier wrote: 4 hours ago

Fingers crossed for a good roll!

Well, I already have this one so I might leave it latent and list it for sale. Looks like they're currently going for Jah

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This one is medium. A -9 or -10 magic would suit you better. I would roll it if I were you.

As you wish. Stand by for results...

mikelessar wrote: 3 hours ago

This one is medium. A -9 or -10 magic would suit you better. I would roll it if I were you.

Most monsters have 0% magic resist i think (right?)
As far as i know there is no monster affix that increases magic resist so the same (0%) for most uniques and heralds
Uber Baal has 75% and immunes would have 95%

Let's say base Abyss damage is 7,000

With his gear now + Consume, he has -47% enemy magic resist and +42% magic skill damage
So Abyss damage before resists = 9,940
Avg enemy would be reduced to -47% mr, so would take 14,611 damage
Uber Baal reduced to 28% mr, takes 7,156 damage
Immunes reduced to 48% mr, takes 5,168 damage

With a -10% sunder, -57% emr and +29% msd
Abyss damage = 9,030
Avg enemy reduced to -57% mr, takes 14,177 damage (3% less)
Uber Baal reduced to 18% mr, takes 7,404 damage (3.4% more)
Immunes reduced to 38% mr, takes 5,598 damage (8.3% more)

So slightly better on the average monster/unique/ Herald, worse for ubers and magic immunes (which are so niche). I think the difference is pretty minor tho and neither is clearly better. His current sunder is also really well-rolled otherwise though, imo

Your analysis looks good, kerph. However, I think there might be more magic resistant monsters than one might think. I play lots of Tombs and the mummies are naturally immune to magic. I see them every day. But that might just be my Tombs Fetish. In addition, "Magic resistant" "Mana Burn" is a common unique affix that grants Magic Resistance. The Uber Ancients have quite a lot of magic res etc. I guess lots of heralds, too. So for these beefy cases I would prefer -10 to +15, but yeah, his +13 are still strong.

Ah you're right about tombs. It's actually a fav spot for me as well, forgot about the mummies

mikelessar wrote: 1 hour ago

"Magic resistant" is a common unique affix.

I thought of this, from what i saw it actually doesn't increase magic resist, only all resist? (Not 100% sure if that is accurate) Which i believe would apply to heralds as well, since they are just fancy uniques, unless they gain magic resist by being a Herald, I don't know tbh
Otherwise -% emr would definitely be a bigger deal, uniques and heralds are probably the most important things to optimize for
With uber ancients they'd fall into the Uber Baal caetgory (slightly better with -% emr)

DasNarf wrote: 1 hour ago

Unique affix "Mana Burn" does apply +20% magic resist.

Thanks!! Didn't know that

With 20% mr the numbers would look like
Current sunder, 12,623 effective damage
-10% sunder, 12,371 (2% less)

So +% msd still outperforms in that case (by the teeniest tiniest margin)

Yeah, you're right, there is no magic resistance on the affix "magic resistant". I actually knew this once but forgot about it. I was misleading the name.