Will I ever be able to do -Max res / Ele pen map mods?

Can't do any ele weakness maps, thats fine gear will solve.
Can't do ele pen
Just found my first -max modded map so I guess thats two mods that brick your map. No scours so just 3:1 and move on with your life. /shrug

Extremely tanky Titan with all defensive ascendencies. I could double my life get 80 max res and I still would never walk into a -25 map.

Is their any practical difference between -max and pen if your resistances are at 75?
Last edited by znowstorm#2198 on Dec 29, 2024, 6:01:09 AM
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Can't do any ele weakness maps, thats fine gear will solve.
Can't do ele pen
Just found my first -max modded map so I guess thats two mods that brick your map. No scours so just 3:1 and move on with your life. /shrug

Extremely tanky Titan with all defensive ascendencies. I could double my life get 80 max res and I still would never walk into a -25 map.

Is their any practical difference between -max and pen if your resistances are at 75?


Well, -max tops out at -15, pen goes to 25...so yeah, pen is essentially "you take double ele damage" and -max is "you take 60% more non-physical damage"

I dunno about Titan, but I can get through a T15+ with one of those mods plus other random ones pretty well with my Ice Strike Invoker. Still get very up close, just a lot of get hit in, roll out, reposition, etc...

There's a lot of imbalance though - may just be bad mods for warriors atm.
I got one shot with 10k total ES/mana on an eb/mom/ci build from a random attack just because of damage pen.
don't ever do damage pen/ max resist/ multiproj
you had some ways to deal with them in poe1 (using ur armor to mitigate ele dmg which wont work in poe2/ shifting like 50% to chaos with ES) but yea not really runnable imo in poe2 unless you are okay getting randomly oneshot every now and then.
Last edited by Carelessbitch#6955 on Jan 28, 2025, 4:48:11 AM
I'm a Totem Titan with 3.6k HP and 4.8k ES. It's doable if it's just one of the two. It starts to get dangerous when you also get stuff like "monsters gain % as extra elemental damage." That's when it gets rough.
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Can't do any ele weakness maps, thats fine gear will solve.
Can't do ele pen
Just found my first -max modded map so I guess thats two mods that brick your map. No scours so just 3:1 and move on with your life. /shrug

Extremely tanky Titan with all defensive ascendencies. I could double my life get 80 max res and I still would never walk into a -25 map.

Is their any practical difference between -max and pen if your resistances are at 75?


Your idea to "tank" is wrong.

The correct idea is to wipe everything before it even hits you.

Do not thank me.

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