Merc - to resistance

[X Y Z]

If a merc has a weapon that has - to a certain resist, does your damage do more? I.e.

<TABLE cellPadding=5 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#20100a>Obedience</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#20100a>5 Socket Polearms</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#20100a>Hel + Ko + Thul + Eth + Fal</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#20100a>30% Chance To Cast Level 21 Enchant When You Kill An Enemy
40% Faster Hit Recovery
+370% Enhanced Damage
-25% Target Defense
Adds 3-14 Cold Damage
-25% To Enemy Fire Resistance
40% Chance of Crushing Blow
+200-300 Defense (varies)
+10 To Strength
+10 To Dexterity
All Resistances +20-30 (varies)
Requirements -20% </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>


If I make a fire sorc do I do more fire damage?

[[/sarcasm]]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it only lowers their resistance for that attack. I could well be wrong though.

[jedimaster86]

I'm pretty sure that any -resist to enemies created by your merc's gear will also apply to you, so i think that you will be doing more damage to them. It is also like if you have a lite sorc and your merc is using an infinity (which has a -45-55% enemy lite resist mod on it), then in effect your lite sorc will be doing more damage to the enemies if your merc has that polearm equipped.

[[/sarcasm]]

Jedi, with the Infinity, your sorc will be doing more damage because of the conviction aura. I wish I could test that, but I wouldn't know where to begin.

[Silver Ice]

heres how you test it.. give yourself a lvl 1 lightning and 1 pt into mastery... give your merc probably a 6 soc eth spear and put - the max enemy light resist on it. insert 13 - the max light jewels into the mercs gear, 3 into a plain helm, 4 into a plain armor, 6 into the spear... you should probly have an extremely high - enemy light resist... try killing something that has decent light resistance like hell mephisto... if he dies in 1 hit then you can concur that it does work on a merc... if mephy laughs at you and fires orbs at you... it doesnt.


on topic id say only the merc gets - enemy light when he attacks.

[Shellz]

LOL @ silver good advice though

[Silver Ice]

just tested this... at -3000% enemy light resistance and 4580% light dmg on merc... at lvl 1 lightning dmg like 1-45... against hell meph.. it didint do anything. meaning. it doesnt work.

[Fuggle]

That really is hard to tell... You need something that has a pretty good range and at least does dmg like Nova. Get it to 2k so that you can at least see something when it hits him, than test with the -3000%

[highone140]

for obedience Damage is always same for same weapon.

[Silver Ice]

tested again with a total of -4080% light resistance on merc.. using nova of 590-836... based on this calculation the dmg would be say 40.8x 590-836? 24,072-34,108... and based on information from the arreat summit... http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/monster...isto.shtml mephs life would be 94,320. a maximum of 3.9 hits would kill him. i also have 7300% light dmg on a merc, but that doesnt help either.