can you over cap resist spells

[TimberWolf]

to compensate for casting protection

I know protection will still drop you by -2 to fc

my skills gump seems to show I can have 100 resist spells or even 120 resist spells with protection cast.

does that really work....or is it urban legend stuff?

 

[Cutter]

Interesting question!

Grab some magicresist increase jewels (do they exist?) and test it out!

 

[Fridgster]

I'm almost positive that you can overcap it. Used protection on my sampire. The ability to use curse weapon reliably was a major boon.

 

[TimberWolf]

Interesting question!

Grab some magicresist increase jewels (do they exist?) and test it out!

oh it goes up on my skill gump....but I guess my question is...does it actually do anything or does it still function like 80 resist spells

 

[Cutter]

If it goes up on the gump I'd guess it works. Easiest way to check just have a 120 eval mage para you and see.

If lowered to whatever prot' drops it to you should get para'd for a second or so. If still 120 the para will do nothing.

 

[Lord Taliesin]

Yup, it works. I play a mage with 120 resist in protection. He has GM inscription which reduces the resist penalty to -30 instead of -35, I compensate with a prepatch resilient bracer with +30 resist.
He's reasonably effective in pvp as I can stand there and mana dump with high sdi without being interupted but it's a little bit of a glass cannon situation, if you don't kill your target in one go the 0 FC makes it hard to cast quickly enough to heal and damage at the same time so I either die or stalemate.

 

[PwnySlaystation]

Yes, you can take yourself back up to 120 Resist whilst in protection.

 

[TimberWolf]

Yup, it works. I play a mage with 120 resist in protection. He has GM inscription which reduces the resist penalty to -30 instead of -35, I compensate with a prepatch resilient bracer with +30 resist.
He's reasonably effective in pvp as I can stand there and mana dump with high sdi without being interupted but it's a little bit of a glass cannon situation, if you don't kill your target in one go the 0 FC makes it hard to cast quickly enough to heal and damage at the same time so I either die or stalemate.

Can you over cap FC? as in does protection reduce you by -2...or does it take you to 0 regardless of what you FC was

 

[Old Vet Back Again]

Can you over cap FC? as in does protection reduce you by -2...or does it take you to 0 regardless of what you FC was

You cannot overcap FC to compensate. If you could you would have read about a huge nerf...

 

[Old Vet Back Again]

You can overcap for stoneform (mysticism).

 

[BeaIank]

Can you over cap FC? as in does protection reduce you by -2...or does it take you to 0 regardless of what you FC was

Protection reduces the cap by -2, not FC.
So as a mage, you can never have more than FC 0 in protection, and as a paladin/necromancer/ninja/mystic you can only have up to FC 2 when running protection.