Resistance gear, help please.

[lanceuppercut]

good to know, cheers!

[Retardje]

To be honest, even thought the points made are all valid, I rofled my way through Hell without breaking any sweat lacking any decent resistances. I would say that physical resistance really makes your live a lot easier, but most other damages affixes can easily be dodged or dealt with, assuming you have a decent amount of hp.

Im currently running pigmies in Inferno and its here where I found the huge difference in resistance (and once again the physical resistance being the most noteworthy) needed. Yesterday I decided to trash the special which sometimes spawns in the dark cellar and after all the talks on skype with friends about how badass he is, he felt easy. It was more my mind being in a state like WTF IM DOING THIS WOOOOT. I would say, Inferno is where resistances matter. Im around 450-500 on each now, which isnt to special since we have a shout adding 50% as barbarians.

[oosnakeoo]

There is a calculator for gear to determine whether your current piece has a higher EHP or not. Google it, very helpful.

[GemofIndia]

Since it's more imortant here in SC, and i have a level 53 Barb in HELL. And I'm farming some gear. My question: is there a resist that is more valuable for us than others?

For example, main problems in elite packs for me are: Molten, Fire chains, Desecrate(easily dodged though, but with vortex and fear etc you'll be on it at some point=P). Also the physical resistance is very important for all mobs you meet.
Then there is the lesser ones, Arcane-holy/lightning and poison.

My ranking of importance:
****All res beats the rest ofcourse***
1. Physical/Fire
2. Poison/arcane-holy
3. Lightning
4. Cold

- Sidenote : It's also important to have around equal in the others since you don't want to die even though they are seen less often.

I.E
28 all res
28 fire/physical res

vs
28 all res
28 cold res

should be a no brainer imo, almost no mobs do cold damage.
vs.
28 all res
28 poison/(arcane-holy same)/lightning res

Makes it abit harder, but should be chosen if you already have higher fire res than others.


Any thoughts? Am i overthinking this? Are they actually equally important? Please give me your input!

check this out really helps.
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d-gear-choices