Is this meant to happen (Regarding resistance)

[Xeropace]

I'm gonna go with my current setup and I'm going to say I have requipped it all upon connecting.
AoB
Fire Helm
Ring of lightning resistance.

I have tried several equip orders (Mainly between the helm and ring as AoB doesn't change it), but no matter how hard I try I cannot get the benefits of the ring. If I equip the helm after the ring it says I lose all my resistances (Bar fire of course) and the ring seems to no longer have effect. If I equip the helm then the ring, well that doesn't matter because the Fire helm seems to 'refresh' my resistances every few seconds, and again it says I gain fire resistance, but lose everything else.

I hadn't noticed it till today, that the ring is infact not working in conjunction to the fire helm. I tested it with the fire helm in my hands and with the ring equipped and it was the first time I'd seen the message "You resist the lightning magic".

 

[Thothie]

Blarg... Yeah, I could see where that bug would happen... Really need to write up a new elemental reistance system. There's mention of this in the "ancient bugs" section on the bug report thread.

 

[The Man In Black]

Wow.. Thought the fire helm was fixed awhile ago (dunno, I only use Phoenix now ;-))

Thothie, ya do know of this bug, correct? When wearing the fire helm it spams the player with the "These resistances are off" message every few seconds. That can get damn annoying >_>

 

[HumanSteak]

Ring of lightning res is somewhat useless though, Every lightning attacks are attacking fast so who cares if you resist once or twice? You'll be electrocuted~drunk within a second anyway.
I doupt it's exactly what it was meant to be

 

[Thothie]

Wow.. Thought the fire helm was fixed awhile ago (dunno, I only use Phoenix now ;-))

Thothie, ya do know of this bug, correct? When wearing the fire helm it spams the player with the "These resistances are off" message every few seconds. That can get damn annoying >_>

I thought we fixed that. >_> It's not doing that for me. :\ The bug he's on about is where resistances don't stack and/or cancel one another out. Tis a script side issue that can be fixed, but I have to re-write the whole elemental resistance end and re-balance some items accordingly.

Ring of lightning res is somewhat useless though, Every lightning attacks are attacking fast so who cares if you resist once or twice? You'll be electrocuted~drunk within a second anyway.
I doupt it's exactly what it was meant to be

The lightning resistance ramps with your lightning skill, so it can get to be pretty formidable at the higher levels. Most of the lightning attacks that do “rapid fire” do not include the drunk effect, but just do damage – and the ring also reduces damage from those attacks.

 

[The Man In Black]

Fire helm seems to 'refresh' my resistances every few seconds, and again it says I gain fire resistance, but lose everything else.

Did I misinterpret, then? I'm pretty bad at that, lately >_>

 

[HumanSteak]

My lightning level is 33, thus 66% lightning res and even though I resist Runegahr's LS, the half-second I don't resist it I'm drunk and get hit by 50s and 100s for 4 seconds. And yes, I re-equipped it .

 

[Xeropace]

I'm guess that the current system 'overlaps'. In this I mean that, Fire Helm gives 2x fire magic, but it also gives 0% in the other elements, which it should as it's a fire res helm. Yet I'm guessing that these 0's also overwrite anything else, so it's not a null or N/A value, it's an actual "set it to 0" value rather than "ignore it".

But the lightning res ring doesn't do that to fire... It gives 2x Lightning, and 0's ice and vemon, but not fire...? However this doesn't matter cos the self-refreshing fire helm goes and overwrites the lightning :S