Lilith poison nova kills merc at 90% res

How? my merc got 4000hp and 90% res on poison, and it's insta dead,

That damage is damage over time.

What is wrong with this fake game?

Bump

You as a player takes only 16,66666% of the damage.
Mercenary takes 200% of the damage.
She has a poison aura which doubled here poison damage.
Here melee attack has a 33% bonus to poison damage.
One of here poison attacks is poison spray, it is coded different and deal consistent damage like inferno. So it stacks.

So yes the resists blocks 90% of the damage, but the remaining 10% is still a very high damage number which kills merc very fast.

On top of this she has extreame physical damage.

https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Lilith_(Diablo_II)

This post was edited by gel87 on Mar 8 2026 05:39am

how to prevent merc from getting one shot from her?

Im actually not sure. Because normally you would add PLR features, but since that poison spray your merc died vs is constantly reapplied poison damage as long as merc is in it, its not 100% as usefull, but should still help vs the dot damage after last damage was applied.

If you feed merc antidotes. 10 antidotes last for a long while, and it should maby bring res up to 95%.
95% is half the damage taken compared to 90%.
If you find some kind of 75plr it would help some too.
Gul rune is also a thing. (5% max pr)

It could be a bug. When the game launched back in 2021 I could have sworn launch resistances weren't working as they should. Could be something similar.