Exposure apparently not working on pinnacle bosses

Hey,

I'm currently running a RF paladin in Phrecia event, and using Storm Brand with Stabilizing Sceptre (elemental equilibrium) to apply fire exposure on rares and bosses.

While this setup works fine on map bosses, including Shaper guardians, and other unique monsters such as Syndicate members, it appears that BIG bosses, the ones with the life bar taking the whole top of the screen, are not affected.

I've tested, for now: Exarch, Eater, and Catarina. All were unaffected by elemental equilibrium.

Did I miss anything ? Maybe the hit isn't strong enough to apply or something ?

Update: this situation (bug ?) does happen for every boss having that large HP bar taking half the screen.

Since yesterday I tested Catarina again, as well as Shaper and even Izaro from (regular) eternal Lab. In all these fights, their fire resistance was reduced by my Flammability curse, but *not* by fire/cold exposure from Storm Brand + Elemental Equilibrium. When applying only the curse, their fire res changed colour, and with Storm Brand alone it did not.

On the other hand, Storm Brand/EE did lower the fire res of other bosses, whether regular map bosses or Elder/Shaper guardians (including during The Formed invitation).

I have no idea why this happens or what I can for my setup to work on pinnacle bosses.

Bosses with big life bar tend to have better resistances, I think your exposure is not strong enough to drop their fire res below zero. You can test this by using lower level Flammability whose effect alone won't be enough to change the resistance icon colour. Use it and then EE to observe if the icon changes colour.

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PoitelMarto#6098 wrote:

Since yesterday I tested Catarina again, as well as Shaper and even Izaro from (regular) eternal Lab. In all these fights, their fire resistance was reduced by my Flammability curse, but *not* by fire/cold exposure from Storm Brand + Elemental Equilibrium.

By your curse alone? I don't think that would happen without a good helping of increased curse effect.


This is with a level 23 Flammability for -39% Fire Resistance.
The Shaper's resistance was going negative for me, but only when other effects were applied--Scorch, or Fire Exposure.

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MonaHuna#6449 wrote:

Bosses with big life bar tend to have better resistances, I think your exposure is not strong enough to drop their fire res below zero. You can test this by using lower level Flammability whose effect alone won't be enough to change the resistance icon colour. Use it and then EE to observe if the icon changes colour.

For what I know, and maybe I'm wrong, Pinnacle bosses have the same base resistance values as Elder/Shaper guardians (50% elem res, 30% chaos res). After some poewiki research it even appears that eternal lab Izaro only has 45% elemental resistances.

Yet, EE applies -30% fire res (-25% base, extra -5% from fire mastery), and my lvl 20 Flammability -36% fire res. So with both, fire resistance should be negative. Be it Catarina or Shaper, there are no mods I know of that could up their resistances. And yet their fire res stay above zero

On the other hand, Guardians under both EE exposure and Flammability do have a negative resistance.

I'll try and add some screenshots later today for clarity.

First one against Minotaur, no resistance-related mods. When applying both EE and curse, fire resistance goes negative, and the fire icon moves to the left



Now against white-invitation Infinite Hunger, with both EE and curse fire resistance keeps being positive.

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PoitelMarto#6098 wrote:

Now against white-invitation Infinite Hunger, with both EE and curse fire resistance keeps being positive.

The icon is red, it means the resistance is negative. It's not moving because these big life bars were backported from PoE2, where the left side is designed to display build-up ailments, so the positon of resistance icons is static.

Oh my. Colourblind me didn't notice that. Thanks for your answer !