Does overcapped resistance help against Penetration?
If a map mod has monster damage penetrates 25% of elemental resistances, does overcapped resistance help?
From my research I have not found anything conclusive for PoE2. I know they have changed penetration a little from PoE1 (i.e. cannot pen below 0% res). If overcapped resistances does not help - that map mod seems kind of insane. Playing hardcore atm - have some maps where I am a little hesitant to run. Thanks. Last bumped on Jan 10, 2025, 10:00:56 PM
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The PoE 2 wiki is not yet up to date on penetration. But I would assume that it works like in PoE 1, with the exception that it cannot go below 0, what you have already mentioned.
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Resistance_penetration So over capped resistances would not help. If you have 90% Fire resistance and your maximum fire resistance is 80%, 25% penetration would treat your fire resistance as 55%. |
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overcapped resists only protect against things like "you have 40% less Resistances", and "Reduces player resistances by X" on map mods and curses. penetration treats your resists as your displayed capped resistances - penetration value, without any benefit from overcap.
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" It is insane. Just throw those away if you care about exp. I'm currently trying to grind towards lvl 97, and I just put em in a stash tab to maybe use once I level up. |
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25% penetration is a bit much, thats basically like 100% added damage, when our added damage mods are what 40%?
15% would be a much better number. |
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