is there any point to using lower res on monsters that aren't poison immune? I mostly do cows, is it jus tbetter to cast amplify dmg curse so corpse explosion does even more dmg?

whats better?

lower res increases your damage

when you're doing cows it's all about getting that first corpse... personally I don't use LR on monsters that are not poison immune if I have Death's Web (DW basically is a lower resist) and just use Amp from the start

Lower player settings:
LR - nova - amp - ce

Higher player settings:
Amp - nova - ce

I generally follow this and it seems to work well. As others mentioned, it may be gear dependent. If you have a lot of -epr and you're talking cows, probably ok to skip LR altogether

I do have deaths web, so prob okay to skip LR altogether unless the monsters specifically say "poison immune". Not too sure how the mechanics work. I notice on skeletons my psn nova doesnt do as much dmg unless I cast LR.

For cows, I think going straight to amplify damage curse clears them faster because I can explode right away.

It's all about finding a smooth pattern and executing. I don't want to tele-lr-psn-amplify-corpse because it adds to total actions being done and there's a lot of things to manage. I play hardcore so I don't want to focus on so many things when I gotta focus on also staying alive.

I hear ya. "Optimal" vs "actual" don't always align in these discussions IMO. I have a 650+MF pit nec I play exclusively HC P7 pits with. He doesn't have dweb or anyt -epr actually, so I do cast LR. That said that's a fixed map, single player, so that factors in too.

I think once he finds dweb, I can go for damage build to handle cs/baals without using LR as much

I honestly feel pretty close to "maxed out" on my necro and its still very scary, came close to death a couple of times in HC. I may look at replacing enigma with Bramble and go for the 48% fcr (or just ignore fcr altogether) to focus on hardcore survivability and just more dmg for psn nova and corpse explosion. Not sure how people do with necros in full games running chaos and baal. I can do it but its really tough

DW is -55 max..

If a monster has 25 psn res, they then end at -25. Meanwhile the floor is -100. Once first cow is dead, u quickly amp prior to corpse explotion... But last i checked cows is not fire immunes, so lr will help corpse explotion as well...

This post was edited by gel87 on Jun 28 2022 11:27pm