Max Resists is 75%?

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GrimJahk wrote:

Is either of those choices really superior to 4 Passive Points?

Depends on your class/build. I don't think anyone takes the mana.

If you want built-in resist for flexibility in gear, there are very few resist passives better than +8% to all. Diamond Skin and Celestial Walker are better, but my witch doesn't have anything like that near the keystones I've taken. Basically ask yourself if you would put some points into a convenient cluster of +8% elemental resist passives. If not, kill Kraityn.

The life reward increases your base life and is affected by multipliers. I haven't done the math to know how +45 life compares to an +8% life node because I have CI. I'm sure it's on the board somewhere. :)

I think taking all the +8% resists is a good idea because it means you can rely on various small affixes on your gear to reach +75%, without taking the big bonuses of fire/saphire/topaz rings. This frees up your ring slots for Gold Rings.

But personally I like the +1 skill points better :)

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GrimJahk wrote:

Is either of those choices really superior to 4 Passive Points?

For those of us that are stacking HP, helping Oak certainly can be superior.

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GrimJahk wrote:

Is either of those choices really superior to 4 Passive Points?

Those who has taken lots of HP % will probably take the 45 hp.

The mana not really sure but i think with all 4 of them you can get a damage aura which substantially increase your dps.

+32 resist. I supposed will be godly in PVP against witch and elemental dpser who will be using elemental weakness. With 4 passive you can't get 32 all resist.

Passive points meh, maybe i'll get it only on default to test my build earlier.

For the most characters who rely on health and health regeneration the +hp reward is by far the best one. You dont really need 4 times the resistance reward, there are far better ways to get the resistances up to the cap.

Try to get your hands on some resistance rings with double resistance magic stats (on ruthless and mercieless at amounts of ~30-40%) and you end up with almost capped resistances after just using 2 rings.
(2 rings with 30% cold, 30% fire, 30%lightning)

- just get them by alterating many good base rings of high itemlevel -

Next thing is, its not always needed to have maximum resistances, >60% cold is most of the time enough to survive anything right now, just be careful with lightning and fire resis for vaal overlord boss...but maybe try swapping the rings around according to the area your playing in?

These things may change, because its right now in discussion afaik to implement a kind of resistance reduction with higher difficulties.