Resist rate on spells?

[jokque]

Lately ive been leveling my low lvl elemental (from 55 to 69 atm) (solo) and im getting a bit tired of "mob resisted your acid/cold/whatever blast"
The mobs ive been fighting have been mostly vigilant igaaras (1*, pink, in oflovaks oasis in fyros) and the resist rate hasnt improved at all the 14 lvls ive leveled.

Why do the mobs resist so many spells ? (nearly 50% resist rate, if not more) and what can i do to hit them easier ?

[amitst]

If you are a priest you can follow the tip in the vampirism thread and add high level vampirism to up the spell level, but then your damage and hp/sap loss would suffer and you would be forced to group.

Resist rates are terrible until you get the racial spells of electricity, fire, shockwave, and poison, which then work nicely in their respective homelands. Using basic elemental spells often requires you to be equal or higher than the level of the monster to get a good hit rate, and I dont understand why this is, considering melee gets the +30 level bonus of accurate attack, but such is the game mechanics.

It is my understanding that the hit rate with magic is very similar if not equal to the hit rate with melee if you dont use accurate attack.

[jokque]

The vampirism trick doesnt work AT ALL

Ive but a 160 vampirism brick in my lvl 55 acid spell and the resist rates are identical, in fact the only time i actually died when soloing was when i used that vamp brick and a mob resisted every single spell until i died (no i hardly use hp credit, think it was -20)

[mmatto]

(from 55 to 69 atm) vigilant igaaras (1*, pink, in oflovaks oasis in fyros)

If you tried something 1* pink, you have 50 lvl to ohigh mob for you.

However, that may have been typo. It is a yellow area, right?

If it was yellow mob, then try:

- different damage type
- get amp with better elemental power
- add concentrate on spell (some say it helps)
- go to smaller mob. vigilant igara might be too high for that lvl.

[amitst]

Concentrate only helps your spell not being broken by the monsters attack.


It does not have any affect on the resist rate.(by testing, definition, and description)

[geezas]

Leveling elemental with a team at low levels is nice. A tank, another elemental, affliction, healer, you can get a nice levelingrate going that way. later on it becomes harder to find a fast leveling mob, but who wants to be 250 anyway

[jokque]

If you tried something 1* pink, you have 50 lvl to ohigh mob for you.

However, that may have been typo. It is a yellow area, right?

If it was yellow mob, then try:

- different damage type
- get amp with better elemental power
- add concentrate on spell (some say it helps)
- go to smaller mob. vigilant igara might be too high for that lvl.

-pink/yellow who notices the difference The igaras im talking about drops ql57 items afaik, maybe it was 67

-Only other dmg type i can use is cold, it has the same resist rate but they seem to have alot of cold absorb, only does about half the dmg
-amp is 95 speed 66 power, decent enough id say, better than 71/71 that seems to be a common ele amp
-havent tried concentrate, but it only says that helps on spell breaks, ie if you are getting hit
-The mobs are lower lvl than i am, and only gives 1k xp a kill (started at 2k'ish)

[jokque]

Leveling elemental with a team at low levels is nice. A tank, another elemental, affliction, healer, you can get a nice levelingrate going that way. later on it becomes harder to find a fast leveling mob, but who wants to be 250 anyway

been unsuccessful getting any kind of team for any of my skills other than healing so far

[larwood]

been unsuccessful getting any kind of team for any of my skills other than healing so far

Join the club

It does get rough at times... but you can make a friends list of people that are around your same level... that you have hunted with before. It never hurts to send a tell, and ask what's up. You'll find that a lot of us are in the same boat.... if we could all just be on a the same time, we'd be in business.

[xenofur]

erm, igaras and birds in general have insane resistances against lots of things, they're esp. an annoyance to me as they shrug of my knifes with impunity <_<