Noxious Poison Bomb -resist reduction

[Dioarchet]

I think you are over-valuing the resist reduction on “of the Abyss” unless your enemy has a substantial amount of either postive or negative resists after all flat resist reductions are applied it actually does rather little. You need to reach either +100 resist or -100 resist for the reduction to be on par with Plaguebearer’s suffix for instance.

You know, this section of Raiyaz’s resist reduction post really bothers me:

Advanced Mechanics

Please note that in ALL CASES for Grim Dawn, flat reductions apply before %reduction, so in our case, the order the resistances would be applied in is thus:[ol][li]n Reduced Target’s Resistance[/li]
[li]n% Reduced Target’s Resistance[/li]
[li]-n% Resistance[/ol]

[/li]Shouldn’t #2 be last?

I think I wasn’t reading that post carefully enough and only focused on that list, which may be incorrect. In the case that general percent resist reduction really does come last, I guess I did overstate the importance of “of the Abyss” WRT to resist reduction. BUT it’s still really good in terms of damage reduction. And those builds able to access many different sources of flat resist reduction such as pyromancer (fire), conjurer (vitality), and witch hunter (poison + cold) would still benefit significantly.