Fade's Physical Resist

[Ruvanal]

I was reading in the Amazon Basin about Fade's hidden 1% physical resist bonus.

1) Can anyone verify this?

Yes Fade has 1% Physical Resist per skill level that is not listed in the description.

2) In the AB, people also mentioned that the Iron Golem receives, if I recall correctly, a level 8 or so Fade. Why is that? Bug or hidden feature?

In 1.10s the this was changed to Fade slvl=16 in the skills.txt file. There is also a slvl=16 Fade listed in the monprop.txt file. I am not sure if these will directly stack with each other, but it is likely. This would give the Iron Golem an equivalent level 32 Fade (32% physical resistance). This is also why the Iron Golems were alway looking like they were ethereal in the first v1.10beta patch.

3) Will they list Fade's hidden feature, or eliminate it?

Unknown for know unless Isolde answers this directly.

4) Why does the Iron Golem receive a Thorns aura and Fade? Will this, too, be eliminated?

Fade to make them tougher to be like "Iron"; Thorns because they are spikey.

Making the Iron Golem highly physically resistant may be counter productive. Unless I am mistaken the amount of reflected damage from their thorns is based on the amount of damage that they actually end up taking. If you brought them up to being Physically Immune they probably would not reflect any damage back at all. This may still be desireable in some cases though.