Why is Dominus' Touch of God Merc hitting me for so much? Way more than others are reporting.

Hi a have same problem .... i have 2 hand sword Duelist and my defence is 23 500 defence - this is 71% reduced physical damage and 75% light resistance.So how is possible hit me Dominus for 3100 life ( this is my death)

71 % physical dmg reduction
75 % lightning resistance
- 3100 life ?????
What can I do more?

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Mark_GGG wrote:

at the point of damage calculation, which may or may not be at the start of the animation

Why is that even a thing? That is INCREDIBLY unintuitive. Not to mention that i basically can't react to all skills that calculate at the start of animation...

edit: I should also mention that i didn't even know that was the case until now, after over 1.5years of playing...

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Steel13 wrote:

Hi a have same problem .... i have 2 hand sword Duelist and my defence is 23 500 defence - this is 71% reduced physical damage and 75% light resistance.So how is possible hit me Dominus for 3100 life ( this is my death)

71 % physical dmg reduction
75 % lightning resistance
- 3100 life ?????
What can I do more?

You have to keep in mind that the physical reduction is 71% for the average hit of enemies that are your lvl and not 71% for hard hitting bosses. Its not a true % based reduction, it depends on how much pysical damage the initial hit does.

Also you need to be carefull that you are not shocked when he hits, after he teleports he will leave shocked ground !!!

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drakar8888 wrote:

a huge portion of the attack is physical, the abyssus is murdering u

i have a heavy armored character 46k armor/ 77 light res - get hit for ~1500-2000. If I add granite 81k /77 res get hit for 500-1000.

Which is why the Abyssus is usually paired with Lightning coil, to convert the extra physical dmg to lightning dmg, so that the 76%+ lightning resist comes into play.

I know this thread is a bit old But I will start adding some experiments to this soon. I want to know how much dom's fist hits for as well. I got 1 shot in bloodlines. 4.8k hp. Max lightning resists. Dual claw melee. Not sure if I was shocked or what. I prolly was. I need to get better at endgame anyways to practice soloing these guys. Scrubcore for me for the rest of the season.

I will be testing Vaal's and Dom's fist of death to be sure how much they hit for. I was on a map where he did 30% more dmg and 30% faster. I guess you live and learn. Hit fist is impossible to dodge at 30% IAS but I was hoping I could tank it. Stupid is as stupid does :/

Tested and backwards calculated merciless vaal slam at 10K. if 50% fire and 50% light dmg.
I will test dom smash next.
They are both attacks because acrobatics dodged it a number of times. Not sure if the attacks are blockable.

Tested Dom Slam. ALso an attack and hits for only 6k dmg. 1/2 fire 1/2 light dmg. I could not get either vaals slam or dom smash to crit me but still unsure of whether it can crit or not. I will do further tetsing later when I unspec acrobatics.

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YeahPete wrote:

Tested and backwards calculated merciless vaal slam at 10K. if 50% fire and 50% light dmg.
I will test dom smash next.
They are both attacks because acrobatics dodged it a number of times. Not sure if the attacks are blockable.

Do you mean 50% fire 50% phys?

I get 1 shot with 6,400 health and 23k armor (~65% phy dmg reduction) ... light res is capped...

I don't even attempt this boss fight anymore.. so dumb.. so dumb...