What's better? +15 fire absorb or +26 fire resist

[LifePincher]

When being atacked with fire, what would be better to add?

+15 fire absorb
or
+26 fire resist?

Thanks ;)

[F1R3STR1D3R]

From Arreat Summit:

full damage / %resistance / %Absorb / heal amount / damage taken

1000 0% 0% 0 1000
1000 95% 0% 0 50
1000 90% 0% 0 100
1000 85% 0% 0 150
1000 80% 0% 0 200
1000 75% 0% 0 250
1000 70% 0% 0 300

____

1000 0% 0% 0 1000
1000 0% 40% 0 600
1000 0% 35% 0 650
1000 0% 30% 0 700
1000 0% 25% 0 750
1000 0% 20% 0 800
1000 0% 15% 0 850

____

1000 0% 0% 0 1000
1000 95% 40% 20 10
1000 90% 35% 35 30
1000 85% 30% 45 60
1000 80% 25% 50 100
1000 75% 20% 50 150
1000 70% 15% 45 210


You can decide from that.

If you are talking about direct absorb, I would take the 26% Fire resistance because Direct Absorb only heals that much damage.

Absorb % is just like Fire resistance if you have 0% Fire resist.

[LifePincher]

The absorb would be coming from Hellmouth gloves.

Say you have 49 fire resist.

You'd go with gloves that add the +26 fire resist (bringing fire risists to 75) over having the 49 fire resist and +15 fire absorb?

[F1R3STR1D3R]

I would take the 26% Resists.

1000 Raw Damage * (1-.75) Fire Resists = 250 Net Damage
1000 Raw Damage * (1-.49) Fire Resists - 15 Fire Nullify = 495 - 15 Fire Heal = 480 Net Damage

[krischan]

Absolute absorb works great versus continuous damage (firewall, meteor fire) or a big number of small fire attacks (hydra, Diablo's fire snakes), even if it's a seemingly small number. Continuous damage is dealt once per frame and absorb works on a per-frame base, too. That means, with 15 fire absorb you can effectively ignore 750 continuous damage per second (because you get healed by the absorbed amount).

As long as I can't afford the Tal Rasha set for my sorc, she wears the Rising Sun amulet which has 0.75/L fire absorb together with perhaps 50% fore resist . Neither the Councils' hydras nor the spells from the Bloodlords in hell Durance 3 can harm her - in fact, most of these attacks heal her.

[helvete]

Absolute absorb now has a cap to it versus frame based attacks such as firewall. mostly 1/25 or 2/25. = not so great versus continuous damage.

[RTB]

Absolute absorb now has a cap to it versus frame based attacks such as firewall. mostly 1/25 or 2/25. = not so great versus continuous damage.
That's MDR, not Absorb.

[helvete]

Ooops... (10chars)

[KiRkHaMet]

is "diablo fire snakes" supposed to mean firestorm ? heh

i dont undestand why so much people don't know this spells name

[krischan]

Tne fire snakes look like burning oil he pours on the ground. They consist of many tiny fires and they will all run through a character in melee range, meaning instant death if your resists are bad or instant healing if you have the right amount of resists and non-percentual fire absorb.

[SalivaMonster]

That's MDR, not Absorb.

Could you explain a bit about this cap? Thank you.

[RTB]

Magic Damage Reduction Modification vs. Frame-Based Attacks (http://users.tkk.fi/~tgustafs/mdrmod.html)
From Tommi's website.

It's not a cap, but a reduction in effectiveness.