about neg Damage taken

[kerry9992]

My Warrior clv33 is well geared by crafted stuff from my other high level characters. He is almost invulnerable to any attacks except those Lightening Enchated boss or named monster. These monster will od massive charged bolt while been attack , and my warrior will drop HP very quickly.

Until I test to use Shaftstop , this lv31 unique chain armor give -30 damage taken , decent armor class and some HP , then these lightening attack become nothing , so I can easily kill these things with having it on.
I thought it's neg all kind of damage taken .. but I test to being fire by fireballs and some other hit , it seems not so effecient or clear.

So I have two question ...

1.What do neg damage taken do ? I think no doub it reduce physical attacks like arrorws or melee hit, but what about posion/magical/elemental attacks?

2.I notice my physical resistance drop to 55% while I use Shaftstop (chain mail) , evne my armor class is 400. When I use the crafted plate armor it is 75% with 380 armor class. So .. is the physical resistance cap is different between chain mail and plate armor?

[DacianDraco]

Don't know for sure and i'll speak only out of my observations.

1. Works will all types of damage.

2. I suspected Physical Resistance is linked to type, but maybe even AC plays a role in the formula.

[kerry9992]

thanks for the tip
well I guess I forget to check if my resistance is the same .. since it dont give resistance bonus.

if -30 mean all kind of damage I believe it will be very good armor to against spells and ranged attack