nice 577 mana enigma vita nova sorc
lmao

he was just calculating light stats don't be jelly duude

I find stacking as much -res as possible is the way to go. If playing with pocket-hork barb u can also use lower res wand on swap over cta.
My NL nova sorc has -97, off by 3: the sunder is -8 and gem is -9.

Even then using lower resist wand makes a noticeable difference on LE-heralds.

The wand I always found annoying. I wish Plague lower resist proc would be more usable.

Maybe I will try for fun Act 5 merc. But Insight man.

Insight is mandatory IMO, wand optional but nice. I only use wand vs heralds.

wait my math was off.
it was suppose to be -30% on the griffons with a guardian thunder. I was thinkin the 20/15 on griffons the 15 wasnt the minus res... its the +15% skill dmg and the 20 part on perfect griffons are -20% hehe. Late night posting before sleeping is bad

so updated on the max effort sweaty -lightning res on EVERY slot versus a "sundered mob"
-17% from conviction
-30% from griffon w/ guardian gem
-55 % from infinity.
-10% from sunder charm

so this will net you -112% pierce vs a 95% res sunder mob. Sunder mob should be sitting at -17%.

THEN from there u can decide to slap the facet into a viper to push u to -22% light res. OR go enigma with 2/20 ammy and dual FCR rings 105 fcr slot that has more mf.
And theres the overkill 20/20 faceted 100 life duskshroud route too instead of enigma but thats really nuking the MF which is the only reason id not use a Viper...
And if im not gonna use enigma, im goin back to Viper just for the FCR flexibility because i always prefer to use sojs whenever i can unless i absolutely need the fcr rings for a breakpoint

This post was edited by and1balla_7 on Apr 17 2026 08:53am

Just so good yeah.

I never liked these, it cuts all other stats too much :x

assuming sunder is used.

self wield infinity 95-50ish = 45 lite res remains
griffons 45-25 = 20 lite res remains

could put a facet in chest viper like others have said 20-5 = 15 lite res remaining on mobs.

The only way you can get lower is to cast a lower res from a wand, but thats a hassle if you also bo yourself 15-11 (if lvl12 lower res at 1/5 effect) = 4 lite resist remains on mob.

Lets add conviction aura almost forget at 4-17 = -13 lite res (negative so extra damage bonus 13%)

You really cant get much lower without self wield infinity as self wield ignores the 1/5 rule.

You cannot get more than this since infinity is only a fucking 2 hand runeword.

Really interesting. Let's assume we're set on self-wielding infi (crazy blue orb builds are a whole other can of worms, and 200 fcr is not possible with this armor).

Viper setup: light immunes have -22 lr, everything else has -86 or less, most have -100 (if a monster rolls with 96-99% lr will the sunder bring them down to 95?)

Nova armor setup: -4 light skills, light immunes have -37 lr, everything else has -100.

Comparison from viper to nova armor: -4 lm results in -48% light skill damage, but you get an extra 15% light skill damage from the armor facets, netting -33% light skill damage, which is an effective damage loss of about 5%. You also have another ~14.5% damage loss from -4 nova. In total, your nova suffers about 20% char screen damage cut. Your effectiveness vs light immunes from resists is an extra 12%, and to practically everything else is nil, since the vast majority of other monsters are already at -100. If the nova procs are ~1k damage (big assumption here, just guessing), for parity with the viper setup you'd need them to proc once every other nova you spam vs light immunes, and once every nova you spam vs non immunes.

Complications: losing sojs means a mana pool barely above 2k with good gear, and you need to get hit frequently to reach parity with viper setup. If it's 12% additive ctc nova on armor + rings + 2/20 amu (gl finding the amu), that's 48% net ctc nova, which means you need to get hit between 3 and 6 times per second. It might be great vs fire (or poison?) damage over time, but it seems too dangerous in general. -4 light skills also hurts tstorm if you use that.

If you want to boost your damage from the viper setup, I think you can squeeze an extra 5% effective damage with a nova ormus, or you have to get into the crazy blue orb builds and chug mana pots/wait for redemption to proc on swap.

This post was edited by celloboy126 on Apr 17 2026 12:18pm