Radrunner007 wrote:
No magic pierce skill, but you can socket an item with diamonds or some such and drop magic resist that way. - yes i know, but you asked about LR. Only gear can pierce magic resists, and it cannot work on immunes.
Could you follow up on items lower resist being applied 100% after immunity is broken? So if you have a sword doing -40%, a merc doing -20%, and LR doing -50%, and let's say gloves doing -25%, the Merc Aura and LR would both be applied at 1/5 (so 4% and 10%), to break 101% to 87%, at which point the gloves and sword would apply at -65% to bring it down to 23% (if additive) or 56% (if multiplicative)? - items that lower resist will always work at full strength. So if you have 40 from sword and 25 from gloves (in your scenario), then yes, the resists go down to 23.
Do ALL items just apply to the one on which they are equipped? - yes, all items with -enemy resists apply to the person they are on. So if you have a weapon, gloves, shield, and helmet with -enemy poison resists, you would add all that up together and apply that to the resists of the monster. My sorc has about -130% lightning res on all her gear combined... she absolutely shreds anything that isnt immune ( and even immunes i break).
And could you please tie this back into the entire poison vs bone debate? I've currently built my guy up as a bone necro for a little more versatility, but am worried about hitting a ceiling. - poison necros are stronger this patch. It's the way they deal with bosses. You can hit and run and let the damage do all its work easily for you while you sit back and spam spirit blades/golems to tank. Bone necros are perfectly good players too, though. If you have the charms, they both will do very well.
The issue is psn necros only really have poison strike until lvl 36., then they get nova which sucks up alot of mana and does no where near the damage - you're largely forced into melee range all the time... which I found usually leads to death. Nova overcomes the short term problem, but the damage just doesn't seem as good as spamming bone spear for less mana...