Did I actually create a WD with 99% damage resistance?der=0>

[sla]

Im not in position to disagree, i did not done tests myself
I personally would only welcome this, but we will see soon for sure.

P.S. in your build I would probably use synergy of Gargantuan with Big stinker for AoE poison to triger Bad Medicine. Extra pet - extra damage reduction as well

[Superstate]

..and increasing our damage reduction at this point leads to exponential increases in effective health (see this awesome graph not made by me: http://www.armadagaming.com/attachme...5&d=1331500709).

Just wanted to point out that increasing damage reduction additively leads to exponential increases. There is only one additive damage reduction source in D3 though, which is block. Perhaps damage reduced by makes a comeback though.


As for intellect, the reasoning is simple from a game design viewpoint; all main stats reduce all damage. If intellect didn't reduce physical damage, it would break the beautiful symmetry.


There was something else I found weird about your calculations, which was regarding the health to damage modifier. You said you had 46%, but the modifier you used appears to be 66% (.34 in the calculations), or did I miss something?

[bigbootyjudy]

Just wanted to point out that increasing damage reduction additively leads to exponential increases. There is only one additive damage reduction source in D3 though, which is block. Perhaps damage reduced by makes a comeback though.

True, damage reduction and EHP are linearly related in the multiplicative algorithm. I guess I just meant that as one approaches DR of 1 your EHP increase exponentially.

There was something else I found weird about your calculations, which was regarding the health to damage modifier. You said you had 46%, but the modifier you used appears to be 66% (.34 in the calculations), or did I miss something?

That's a mistake by me, good catch bro.

[sla]

As for intellect, the reasoning is simple from a game design viewpoint; all main stats reduce all damage. If intellect didn't reduce physical damage, it would break the beautiful symmetry.

Hmm, yes you are right, when you put it like this it does actually looks nice It does make sense now for me.
Thanks.