Melee Damage

[LeOsTyLe]

when elite monsters have lava or posion ground or fire chains, does the game calc it as melee dmg. for exaple does chains of ears reduce this dmg? ( all melee dmg is reduce by 10 - 20 % )

[iESCAPISM]

According to what l have heard, yes.

[kaervek]

would also be interested in knowing if different sources of "reduces melee damage xx%" stack additively or multiplicatively.

i.e. is string of ears (20%) + bracers 6% a total of 26% reduced melee, or 20% + (80% * 6%) = 24.8%

[Buen]

Pretty sure straight up damage reduction stack Multiplicativly, since only my wizard have several scources of damage reduction and they don't add up the way they would additivly.

[kaervek]

hm, well even at multiplicatively a 6% melee reduction is about the same as an extra 40-50 resist depending on how much you have so they're pretty good even like that stacked with all res.