How Much Conviction is Sufficient?

[Chameleon]

Good Morning, Lurkers:

I'm curious about the game mechanics involving Conviction, and its application in a PvM role.

Quoting the Summit, Conviction at slvl 20 yields -90% Defense and -125% Resistances.  Personal experience reveals that Conviction at slvl 31 yields -95% Defense (obviously hit a cap at some point, there) and -180% Resistances.

Now.  My question would be exactly HOW MUCH Resistance should a paladin be efforting to offset from Monsters in Hell difficulty?  Does the -125% remove their resistances completely... or do you actually need/benefit from higher percentage "removal"?

Elucidate, please?

*tips helm*

Pretty much the same answer as Tommi. Hopefully better worded :P.

I won't talk about -% to defense as this is too dependant on clvl, mlvl, AR, DR, the type of monster you are fighting, your equipment, etc., etc.

The most important thing to note is that a monster cannot have more than -100% resistance.
slvl 15 yeilds -100%
Monsters with 0% resistance, will have -100% with slvl 15, thus if this char is going to be a cows only guy, then slvl15 is all you need.

slvl 30 yeilds -175%
Several monsters, uniques/act bosses espesically, have some resistances, upto 75%, if you are going to be fighting these guys a lot and you want to lower them to -100%, you are going to need to reach slvl 30.

edit *** did a quick check, a monster can have 95% resistance, thus you need slvl35 for above statement ***