Damiel Urith wrote:
My concern over this matter comes from taking a look at the boss resist charts recently... and well things look bleak. Unless Amp Damage can get exceedingly high, it seems like I will be S.O.L before too long here. So a few follow up questions, are there other ways to lower physical resistance that I am missing? I tried looking into this myself and came up with nothing of use (Decripify which does nothing for me). Just trying to get some idea of what options are available to me.
As a pure physical damage character, you are pretty SOL later in the game.
Last patch, Amplify Damage could reach 70% easily (with 1 point invested), capping out at around ~90% if you maxed it and geared for it heavily. Now the best Amp you're looking at is ~55.
If a Necromancer doesn't max Amp you're stuck in the 25ish area, which won't even bring some choice bosses below 100% physical resistance. This means having max'd Amplify Damage in tow is the only way to deal anything close to significant damage to a boss in Hell.
This has also been discussed to death, and the issue with physical resistance this patch brought is supposed to be fixed at some point.
There are no other sources of physical pierce in the game outside of Amplify Damage or Decrepify, so no other options can make up for the lack of physical pierce available now.