Veil of the Night unüque item question

Veil of the Night Great Helmet: it says "Elemental Resistances are Zero". does it mean if i got minus resist, this items make it zero also?

i mean if i was in merciless with this item, my resists will be zero or -60?

zero

And as the game is built around the assumption that players have at least 75% resists zero would mean a quick death.

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Acanthoid wrote:

And as the game is built around the assumption that players have at least 75% resists zero would mean a quick death.

Probably the least useful unique item.
I suppose you could make a case for swapping this item against very specific bosses (no minions, only phys and chaos damage). However no sane player would bother around level 22 and later on much better options are available.

The item could help against particularly tough spiders on merc IF it modified chaos resistance aswell.

it does _not_ modify chaos.

I'm convinced it's some sort of joke.

most trollish unique ever.

It's a tribute to a similar item in the original Diablo (stats are inspired by Gotterdammerung, and the name is based on Veil of Steel). The original Gotterdammerung wasn't very useful either (unless you used it unidentified, so you benefitted from its very high armour value without suffering the penalties).

Hopefully GGG will buff this item at some point to make it at least potentially useful. (For instance, if instead of 'increased global defences', it reduced all damage taken by 40%, then it could be a reasonable trade-off for certain builds.)

well they know the math, so why they couldn't make it useful when they actually introduced it into the game means it's some sort of joke.

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Incompetent wrote:

unless you used it unidentified, so you benefitted from its very high armour value without suffering the penalties).

Ah, the days you could actually use unidentified items... :)

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druen wrote:

Veil of the Night Great Helmet: it says "Elemental Resistances are Zero". does it mean if i got minus resist, this items make it zero also?

i mean if i was in merciless with this item, my resists will be zero or -60?

Yes, your resistances would be 0, not -60.

I don't have it, so can't test. Do resistance flasks (sapphire, topaz, ruby) have any effect or do resistances stay at zero while using them?

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Bunnu wrote:

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druen wrote:

Veil of the Night Great Helmet: it says "Elemental Resistances are Zero". does it mean if i got minus resist, this items make it zero also?

i mean if i was in merciless with this item, my resists will be zero or -60?

Yes, your resistances would be 0, not -60.