According to this thread my lvl 50 monk will have to stack INT as well as DEX and VIT, as per the following:
The OP says his equations were empirically determined.
Since the mantra <One with Everything> makes all resists equal to the highest I'm hoping to gain some leverage with INT, which I have been selecting against until now.
I will try this, but I can only make small changes and the effect may be hard to evaluate.
Quote:v = Level of the monster you're facing
A = Armor
D = Damage reduced due to armor (all types of damage)
R = Resistance to a certain element (remember without resistance gear, and with just intelligence, all resistances are the same)
d = damage reduced due to R, from that specific element.
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D = A /(50v + A)
d = R /(5v + R)
Quote:...while resistance grows damage reduction at ten times the rate of armor, 1 strength = 1 armor, and 1 int. = 0.1 all resistances. Thus, assuming no armor and no resistances, intelligence and strength will grow your damage reduction at the exact same rate. In order for you to decide which one is better to invest in for damage reduction, just look at your armor and 10x your resistances, and see which one you have more of, and which one you have less of. For example, if you have 2000 armor and 200 fire resist, your damage reduced from fire will benefit exactly the same from 1 point in strength, or one point in intelligence. If you have less than 200 fire resist, you would prefer int. against fire. If you have more than 200 res, you would prefer armor.
The OP says his equations were empirically determined.
Since the mantra <One with Everything> makes all resists equal to the highest I'm hoping to gain some leverage with INT, which I have been selecting against until now.
I will try this, but I can only make small changes and the effect may be hard to evaluate.