Resistances

A Hit is an instantaneous damage event. Any damage that is not damage over time is Hit damage, whether it comes from an Attack, a Spell, Thorns, or another effect.

Damage is classified on three independent axes: source, delivery, and type. A component can come from an Attack, Spell, Thorns, or another source; deal a Hit or damage over time; and deal Physical, Fire, Cold, Lightning, or Chaos damage.

Energy Shield is a rechargeable defensive resource that normally protects Life. Damage is mitigated first, then removes Energy Shield before Life unless the damage or another effect explicitly bypasses it.

Elemental Damage is the collective name for Fire, Cold, and Lightning Damage. A modifier to Elemental Damage can scale all three types, but each part is still mitigated by its matching Resistance and keeps its own ailment rules.

Fire Damage is one of the five damage types. Fire Hits apply Flammability, which supplies chance to Ignite, while Fire Resistance mitigates Fire Hits and Fire damage over time separately.

Cold Damage is one of the five damage types. Cold Hits can Chill and build Freeze, but Chill Magnitude, Freeze Buildup, and Freeze Duration are separate values, and Cold damage from Hits cannot build Heavy Stun.

Lightning Damage is one of the five damage types and one of the three Elemental damage types. Lightning Hits can Shock by default, while Electrocution requires a Skill, item, support, or other effect that explicitly enables Electrocution Buildup.

Fire Resistance reduces Fire damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Cold Resistance reduces Cold damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Lightning Resistance reduces Lightning damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Chaos Resistance reduces Chaos damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Maximum Resistance is the cap applied to a character's Fire, Cold, Lightning, or Chaos Resistance. The default maximum is 75% and the hard cap is 90%. Raising the maximum creates room for more effective Resistance but does not add the ordinary Resistance needed to fill that room.

Exposure is a Debuff that lowers one or more of the target's Resistances. It changes the target's actual resistance, can reduce it below zero, and can improve both Hit and non-Hit damage that uses the affected resistance.

Shrines are Precursor Artifacts surrounded by worshipping monsters. Defeat every Shrine Worshipper, click the Shrine, and its effect becomes your buff for a base duration of 45 seconds.

Mage's Legacies are fourteen possible bonuses rolled in Mageblood's four Legacy slots. Each distinct Legacy grants one always-active bonus while the belt is equipped. Repeated names do not stack directly; instead, every duplicate increases the effect of all distinct Mage's Legacies on that belt.