2. Elemental and Chaos Resistance Reduction Debuffs
Reducing the elemental and chaos resistances of minions allows you to deal significantly more damage to them. This is especially useful for clearing out large groups quickly.
Reducing the elemental and chaos resistances of minions allows you to deal significantly more damage to them. This is especially useful for clearing out large groups quickly.
Despair
Effect: Reduces Chaos Resistance.
Best For: Chaos-based builds, such as those using Chaos damage or Chaos DoT (Damage over Time) skills.
How It Helps:
Greatly increases the effectiveness of Chaos Damage (especially if you are running builds that rely on Chaos for minion control).
Works well when you have many tankier minions, as it ensures they take more damage from your attacks and DoTs.
Flammability
Effect: Reduces Fire Resistance.
Best For: Fire-based builds that use Fire damage or DoT skills (e.g., Ignite, Fireball, Flameblast).
How It Helps:
Weakens minions against your Fire-based attacks, making it easier to clear large groups quickly.
Particularly effective against fire-weak minions or those with high health, allowing you to melt through them faster.
Frostbite
Effect: Reduces Cold Resistance.
Best For: Cold-based builds that focus on Cold damage, such as Ice Spear, Freezing Pulse, or Vortex.
How It Helps:
Great for improving the effectiveness of your Cold-based AoE attacks.
Particularly useful against minions that Path of exile currency have high elemental resistances, allowing your Cold damage to penetrate their defenses more effectively.
Elemental Weakness
Effect: Reduces all elemental resistances (Fire, Cold, Lightning).
Best For: Elemental builds that focus on Fire, Cold, or Lightning damage.
How It Helps:
Ensures that all elemental attacks (not just specific ones) deal more damage.
Provides a significant overall damage boost against minions by lowering their resistances across the board.
Exposure Effects (Elemental Exposure, Physical Exposure)
Effect: Reduces the resistances of minions to a specific type of damage (Fire, Cold, Lightning, or Physical).
Best For: Elemental and Physical damage builds looking to bypass the high resistances of minions.
How It Helps:
Elemental Exposure reduces the elemental resistances, allowing your Fire, Cold, or Lightning damage to be far more effective.
Physical Exposure reduces the physical resistances, ensuring that Physical damage builds can Path of exile currency for sale cut through tougher minions.
Effect: Reduces Chaos Resistance.
Best For: Chaos-based builds, such as those using Chaos damage or Chaos DoT (Damage over Time) skills.
How It Helps:
Greatly increases the effectiveness of Chaos Damage (especially if you are running builds that rely on Chaos for minion control).
Works well when you have many tankier minions, as it ensures they take more damage from your attacks and DoTs.
Flammability
Effect: Reduces Fire Resistance.
Best For: Fire-based builds that use Fire damage or DoT skills (e.g., Ignite, Fireball, Flameblast).
How It Helps:
Weakens minions against your Fire-based attacks, making it easier to clear large groups quickly.
Particularly effective against fire-weak minions or those with high health, allowing you to melt through them faster.
Frostbite
Effect: Reduces Cold Resistance.
Best For: Cold-based builds that focus on Cold damage, such as Ice Spear, Freezing Pulse, or Vortex.
How It Helps:
Great for improving the effectiveness of your Cold-based AoE attacks.
Particularly useful against minions that Path of exile currency have high elemental resistances, allowing your Cold damage to penetrate their defenses more effectively.
Elemental Weakness
Effect: Reduces all elemental resistances (Fire, Cold, Lightning).
Best For: Elemental builds that focus on Fire, Cold, or Lightning damage.
How It Helps:
Ensures that all elemental attacks (not just specific ones) deal more damage.
Provides a significant overall damage boost against minions by lowering their resistances across the board.
Exposure Effects (Elemental Exposure, Physical Exposure)
Effect: Reduces the resistances of minions to a specific type of damage (Fire, Cold, Lightning, or Physical).
Best For: Elemental and Physical damage builds looking to bypass the high resistances of minions.
How It Helps:
Elemental Exposure reduces the elemental resistances, allowing your Fire, Cold, or Lightning damage to be far more effective.
Physical Exposure reduces the physical resistances, ensuring that Physical damage builds can Path of exile currency for sale cut through tougher minions.