11-09-2004, 02:05 AM
Baajikiil,Nov 8 2004, 06:13 PM Wrote:I'm fairly sure it is only the ice demon guys in act5(in the cave areas), and perhaps only in hell. Also, it was chill that sped them up, not holy freeze. The problem with them is that they have such a high natural cold resist(over 100%), that breaking their cold immunity to chill them is nearly impossible.
But you are right that minotaurs are a monster to note for holy freeze: the minotaurs in the WSK are immune to the slowing from holy freeze, as are several other monsters.
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The ice breath demons in hell do have a positive coldeffect. It happens that monsters with a non-negative coldeffect aren't at all affected by the holy freeze chill or area damage.
Those monsters have a base 150-190% cold resistance in hell (depending on the type). Conviction will never have more than -150% to resistances (-30% against immunes). Lower resists has a diminishing returns formula, so even at the impossible-to-reach slvl 99, you'd have only -71% (-14% against immunes). So even with both of those at slvl 99, any monster with 144% or more resistance will still be immune.
There doesn't seem to be any practical difference between their positive coldeffect and a zero coldeffect.