Raising resist caps

Maneki · New Recruit Joined: Jun 01, 2009 Posts: 158

This is kind of in response to the July Goals thread but I figure I may as well start a new thread in case anyone else has similar questions. My resists are at, or very close to their caps (of 600), but I know I need to raise the caps. I haven't done any MPG trails on Maneki yet, but plan to start soon. My question is, what AAs will raise resist caps? I assume Planar Power does, but never really checked. Do the Innate ___ Protection AAs under the general tab raise your cap, or only the base?

What else should I be working on?
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Wwein · Officer Joined: Jun 18, 2006 Posts: 2480 Location: Texas

Very good question!

I believe there are three things to raise your resist caps:

Discordant Defiance, Cost: 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5
Details: Increase resistance cap by 5 points per rank, for a total extension of your resist cap of 50

Trials of Mata Muram - 6 MPG group trials
Each trial extends your resist cap by 8, with the final trial extending it by 10 for a total extension of your resist cap of 50

This will take your cap from 600 to 700. I think those are the only two ways to extend your cap, but let me know if I'm wrong!

Also Sanctity of the Keepers (from completing DoN progression) gives this description:
Your devotion to Norrath's Keepers provides you with an innate chance to completely resist the effects of most detrimental spells.
I believe this grants a few % chance to avoid dots and DDs. A single group can knock out all of the DoN raids excluding Vish in a few hours very comfortably. Vish would take two or three groups minimum.
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Suegar · Squad Leader Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 564

Actually Vish can be one grouped pretty easily nowadays with a decent offtank for the drakes/etc. When I get off my ass I plan to do it for kicks Wink

Hasseo75 · Officer Joined: Feb 06, 2008 Posts: 1260 Location: MX

Zacatac · Officer Joined: Nov 14, 2008 Posts: 1265

Do not buy innates, they just add to the base and are worthless if you are already at the cap.

Do the things Wwein posted, and you can get up to 700.

Lostin · After Hours Member Joined: Jun 17, 2009 Posts: 53

Curious how you handle the dt portion of the vish event, when we tried to 1 group him for Dragond Dragons Dragons we kept getting chain DT'ed faste rthan we could run cure, with group he kept re-dting everyone over and v er and all DPS came to a halt as we ran around getting cures until we all were dead.

Seemed with 6 people the DT was way too fast, or maybe just bad luck?

Tasarian · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:15 am Post subject:

One grouping Vish is easier than a raid.... the DT is chain casted so fast that it overwrites the old one, therefore you never take a DT. Only one person worries about curing it while rest of raid continues with their assignments =)

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Acoma · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:01 am Post subject:

Maneki · New Recruit Joined: Jun 01, 2009 Posts: 158

Thank you for all the info!

I'm at 5/10 of Discordant Defiance after the bonus exp weekend... Planning to cap it out before I continue doing other AAs again. I still need to do all of the MPG trails and DoN Progression on Maneki... My cleric had most (all but Vish, I believe) but I never had any reason to do it for my mage.

I don't have a resist clicky yet... I was looking at the Blackburrow Bulwark, but I really don't want to spend that kind of money, so I'm going to try and look into other items with the same or similar effect, that I can camp.
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Acoma · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:34 am Post subject:

Lostin · After Hours Member Joined: Jun 17, 2009 Posts: 53

As far as clicky resists, I've always liked the DoD mask, since it's easy to get and you probably have most of the tasks done already. The new AC + resists are nice now if you aren't a tank tho, some of those are up to +45 to resists now, and on groupable clickies. The t5 ones are kind of a pain to farm since they are found in telivar's missions, but the t4 clcikies should be the same and those are easier. They are on the non-bow range items.

Back to vish:

How do you determine who needs cured?

Like I said, we all tried to cure and he chain cast so fast we had no chance of curing it heh, eventually we all got DT'ed. Seems like waiting until you are about to die would be an ineffective way to find out who needs to get cured.

Maneki · New Recruit Joined: Jun 01, 2009 Posts: 158

Acoma · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:34 am Post subject:

Wwein · Officer Joined: Jun 18, 2006 Posts: 2480 Location: Texas

There's a very legitimate reason for getting resist clickies. You're frequently tashed or maloed by mobs in group settings, and there's numerous raid mobs that lower your resists a Lot. The dream is to be 700 in all resists in all situations. Chances are, the times when your resists are lowered under 500 are the times you'll most need them higher too! The DoD clicky and those ac/resist clickies stack I think (right?) which gives you 100+ to all resists. Then there's individual resist clickies like the magic gloves from VT and others I can't think of atm.
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Lostin · After Hours Member Joined: Jun 17, 2009 Posts: 53

No, those ac resist clickies kind of suck, because they don't stack with either form of defense OR pure resist clickes such as form of protection/pure arcanum.

I have had a lot of people tell me they do, but when I looked it up it's listed as not stacking, and one of my toons has both and I can't get them to stack.

So, if you have an AC + resist buff, you use form of Endurance, and get all 3 raised, but you can't stack both.

Although double checking my facts, http://lucy.allakhazam.com/stacking.html?id=3631&source=Live lists aura of pure arcanum as stacking with the blackburrow bulwark clicky. Hmm, maybe I should track down a drakebone fan or two. I will test later on my pally who has mask and a ward clicky that I haven't been using because of the AC conflict.

Lostin · After Hours Member Joined: Jun 17, 2009 Posts: 53

Stacking for Aura of Pure Arcanum here:

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/stacking.html?id=7831&source=Live

None of the ward spells are listed as conflicting. I could swear that when I started playing SoD and looked it up that they didn't stack but it appears it now does. Learn something new every day.

Yep logged in my pally to test it before I posted and they stack so, disregard my previous post, I guess I have some (more) farming to do...

Aleax · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject:

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Ybolla · Squad Leader Joined: Jan 01, 2006 Posts: 524

Bolla is done, Oolah is not. IF we're making a list and checking it twice...