Is it possible to hit 100% fire immunity?

So my Fire Wall / Energy Shield sorc is wearing Flickering Flame, Hoto and Phoenix shield (what a fantastic piece of kit, how the hell was I ignoring it so long!). This combination easily covers a negative fire impact of the Flame Rift. Also bumps fire resistance to 90% which is so so satisfying while farming that fiery Travincal.

My question is: will I hit 100% fire immunity if I put Infernostride on? It would be spectacular would it not?

If you want to be Fire immune, this is where The Rising Sun comes in with massive Fire Absorb on top of other gear. You can quite literally sit in Ubers tanking Mephisto and co once the fire mages spawn, attempting to hit you and they heal.

Maximum resist you can achieve is 95%

No.

Also, yes..but no.

Your base resistance caps out at 95%.
Beyond that, you do still have ways to reduce incoming elemental damage via mdr, absorbs and all that jazz.
%-absorb additionally caps at 40% (effective 80% with the post-heal) so that can't get you there either, even in combination.

Absolute absorb/dmg reduction in combination with res and/or %absorb can absolutely get you to a point of "effective immunity" (and beyond that to a point of actually being healed by elemental dmg) but that will be because your effective max reduction exceeds the damage you realistically have thrown at you, not because you actually reach "100%". So in theory, you still won't be immune, even though realistically, you pretty much are.

Thanks for the answers!

Just a tiny addition on what Schnorki said -- nominal (absolute) absorb/magic dmg reduction has no hard Cap (limit) and can [theoretically] stack indefinitely.

So it's kinda always wiser to have flat boosts than % ones -- same goes for physical dmg reduction % (which caps at 50%) and nominal -dmg received values can stack as much as you want (can have).

TheDoo wrote: 2 years ago

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So it's kinda always wiser to have flat boosts than % ones
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While it is true that absolute absorb keeps stacking up, I dare challenge your conclusion.
%-absorb has the potential for far (FAR) greater absorb than the equivalent alternative piece with absolute absorb/reduction. Once you hit the %-caps, yeah, absolute is the (only) way to go after that. But until then, you really want % res/absorb/reduction and then combine that with absolute on your path to immunity, rather than always focusing fully on absolute/flat boosts.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

TheDoo wrote: 2 years ago

[..]
So it's kinda always wiser to have flat boosts than % ones
[..]

While it is true that absolute absorb keeps stacking up, I dare challenge your conclusion.
%-absorb has the potential for far (FAR) greater absorb than the equivalent alternative piece with absolute absorb/reduction. Once you hit the %-caps, yeah, absolute is the (only) way to go after that. But until then, you really want % res/absorb/reduction and then combine that with absolute on your path to immunity, rather than always focusing fully on absolute/flat boosts.

This; when in doubt stacking both % absorb & flat integer reductions. This is essentially the DNA of the immortal sorc.

The beauty of the ability to reduce incoming damage; and conversely heal

In rare cases it depends on actual res you have (now that being said the main issue with my statement is that there are very few items that give big nominal/absolute numbers anyway [with for example The Rising Sun being one of them as someone already posted above] and mods that can spawn on items don't really go that far), but yes you are mostly correct Schnorki.