Damage modifications

[Jarulf]

Precisely! That is to say, I wanted to know if -100 DR from malice would work on the "tough" monsters, like Izual, Diablo, Meph, Baal, etc. I picked Griswold because he's easy to get to, and not troublesome, but has, like the aforementioned monsters, the "boss" flag.

However I concede, if it wasn't obvious from my post, that verifying -100 DR works on the important "bosses", or if it doesn't work on some monsters, was not part of my (limited time) test.

Naturally if you or some other code reader comes along and precisely defines what an effect does/doesn't work on, then I'm happier. :)  But I can't presume on your time and most of these things aren't too tedious to verify to deny anyway.

I think the -DR should be easy to verify. It should be part of the ToHit procedure. The only reason I don't look much at the 1.10 patch is that it is getting booring looking over the same game for the xth time. They have rewritten it so many times that it is geting out of hand. Much is still the same though so it is not as fun either. Just tedious. The last patch has changed the coding style a bit as well though. Not surprising since it is mostly one man doing it and he was not at Blizzard when they started out with D2 I think. The game has also been changed in that it is now heavilly driven by txt files and thus, much is general code with few hard coded things and less such tidbits to look for and build arround when looking at the code. Still, it is not that different.