Lower Resist Wand Effectiveness?

[Gondolin]

How effective does having a Lower Resist Charges wand on the switch have in normal questing play. For example, would it enable a pure blizzard sorc to solo Hell? Once the cold immunes are broken does a high level Cold mastery finish off the resistance, or does it work at decreased effectiveness to the point where cold immunes are still invincible in the practical sense?

I have a blizz sorc on the brink of Hell difficulty that would like to get to Meph for MF runs, and this is SP so I don't have too many options for partying. Of course, I could probably just avoid cold immunes, but that sucks and teleporting alot around Hell usually ends with one dead sorc. So if this Lower Resist thing doesn't work, will I just have to accept the price you pay for having ridiculous ammounts of damage? :grin: And no, I haven't forgotten about my merc, he's cool, but I'm not going to sit around for ten days while he plays tug-o-war with extra fast leeching super uniques.

[WailingDoom]

You should read up on how resistances and immunities work but the breakdown is:

When trying to break immunities, lower resist and conviction work at 1/5th effectiveness. I dont know the correct resistance immunes have but its around 120% (for cold) so you would need -105 lower resist curse/conviction to bring it to 99% cold res. Then your cold mastery (doesnt affect immune breaking) will kick in and reduce it a further minus amount.

[stephan]

For a pure cold sorc a LR wand is pretty useless. It will be either teleporting to meph or waiting for your merc.

[Gondolin]

Thanks for the info. The information on Lower Resist on the Areat Summit seemed to imply that it broke all immunities, then reduced by 1/5 effectiveness, but obviously, that would be pretty over powered.