02-17-2004, 11:57 PM
Quote:No. If a monster has 95% cold resitance, and you take away 5%, you'd need to add 100% cold damage to equal that. The only time it is the same is if the monster has 0% cold resist.
There are only three monsters with negative base resistances, so, unless you have conviction or LR, you can see 0% as the worst case scenario. So -X% resistance will have at least as great an effect as +X% damage.
Except that resistances can't go below -100%, so against a 0% resistant monster, even a -115% CM will only double the damage.