04-12-2003, 05:33 PM
First, this is strictly PvP issue. It does not apply to monsters.
You don't loose experience if you die by hand of another player in NM and Hell. It's this way since 1.07 (Classic). Besides, true PvP chars don't bother with exp loss, because you usualy level to some level and then duel, so exp loss is non-issue.
Well, you can't separate resist and absorb. 2 Ravens + Blackoak is relatively easy to get for anyone, who did some MFing. I personaly have about 7 Ravenfrosts and 1 Blackoak. So anyone really interested in lowering cold damage will use both resistances and absorb.
If you duel on Normal difficulty, then with any cold resistance, wearing 2 ravens+blackoak will make you healed by any legitimately achievable level of Frozen Orb (only PvP viable skill, if you think about Hydra and TS, they can be easily negated too), because 2 Ravens will lower damage so much, that Blackoak will heal you. In this case, there's absolutely no point of dueling.
I think same is for NM, or damage is still very very low.
Only when you duel in Hell, the very low resistance (below -70%) will increase cold damage so much, that there's enough damage left after Ravens to overcome Blackoak. Even then, it still does pretty low damage (so if you're wearing 2 Ravens+Blackoak, you're pretty much immune to PK attempt with Orb (but for general PvM purposes this kind of cold damage protection is useless).
This is why all private PvP communites (which usualy duel in NM or Normal) restrict absorb (usualy 1 per element for most chars, except for necros (and sometimes paladins) who can use 2 Ravens, but no Blackoak).
You don't loose experience if you die by hand of another player in NM and Hell. It's this way since 1.07 (Classic). Besides, true PvP chars don't bother with exp loss, because you usualy level to some level and then duel, so exp loss is non-issue.
Well, you can't separate resist and absorb. 2 Ravens + Blackoak is relatively easy to get for anyone, who did some MFing. I personaly have about 7 Ravenfrosts and 1 Blackoak. So anyone really interested in lowering cold damage will use both resistances and absorb.
If you duel on Normal difficulty, then with any cold resistance, wearing 2 ravens+blackoak will make you healed by any legitimately achievable level of Frozen Orb (only PvP viable skill, if you think about Hydra and TS, they can be easily negated too), because 2 Ravens will lower damage so much, that Blackoak will heal you. In this case, there's absolutely no point of dueling.
I think same is for NM, or damage is still very very low.
Only when you duel in Hell, the very low resistance (below -70%) will increase cold damage so much, that there's enough damage left after Ravens to overcome Blackoak. Even then, it still does pretty low damage (so if you're wearing 2 Ravens+Blackoak, you're pretty much immune to PK attempt with Orb (but for general PvM purposes this kind of cold damage protection is useless).
This is why all private PvP communites (which usualy duel in NM or Normal) restrict absorb (usualy 1 per element for most chars, except for necros (and sometimes paladins) who can use 2 Ravens, but no Blackoak).