elemental resist potions - how do they/should they work?

The Elemental Resist potions have a duration of only a couple minutes. Not sure the actual length, but for reference I sometimes need 2 when fighting Akhests((or however is spelt) due to the longer combat duration.
While active, they reduce a portion of incoming respective elemental damage (more with higher ranks) into toxicity at a fixed rate (about 3:4 is what I've usually seen).
If the toxicity from the Resist potion would cause your toxicity to max out, it does so and cancels any further duration for the potion, thereby not having any further effect (no vomit or w/e).

Unlike the normal buff potions, Resist potions are temporary and really need to be imbibed the round before or during combat to make the most of it, since it only lasts for the duration of a single combat. This it is significantly different from most buff potions, which can be drunk whenever and last until the next time your HP gets reset (either rest, getting downed, or server reset).

I have found that the Elemental Resist potions are quite potent when one is aware of the incoming threat: one potion usually lasts long enough to take out one of the corners of the Hall of Seasons, for example. Other useful scenarios include elemental heavy enemies, where the type is known before-hand or can be intuited: such as the Diver, Akhests, Gnomes, Cultists, Beetles, Dragons, Aberrations, etcetera: with reasonable returns. Fairly importantly, damage not taken cannot affect cumulative damage - a 20% reduction in incoming damage is a 20% reduction in the number of green potions you need to get back to where you were. I've also noticed that resistance potions help greatly with fire/acid DoTs and other high quantities of low damage (such as Tesla-Coil SMGs) as the resistance mitigates at least 1 damage from each tick, potentially combining to much greater effect and lower damage taken than against single strong attacks.

Their effectiveness is also significantly improved if combined with related damage mitigation. A fire resist potion by itself can be minor, but a fire-resist potion with Fireproofed Armor can add up a lot. James is capable of reaching 75% electrical damage reduction between his equipment bonuses and potions, which opens a variety more tactics and durability in certain situations. I do disclaim that James does not normally use healing potions in combat but I do use multiple buff-potions, so while my toxicity is not sitting at empty it is also not usually moving much.

That Said: I can see that having the actual numbers would be of assistance, knowing how long it lasts and what ratio of protection and toxicity to expect would result in a more clear understanding and potential suggestions for what said tweaks would entail.

RE: the newer implementation of these elemental resist potions:

For example, if the potion says for x seconds this potion causes you to absorb 50% of the acid damage you take at a cost of 1 pt tox for every 2 pts acid damage

This would mean you take the following acid damage until tox is maxed:

HP 50%
Tox 25%


After tox has maxed, the damage reverts to default 100% acid dmg going to HP and the potion effect is no longer active. Tox slowly reduces as per standard and the base 5 tox elemental potion cost is no longer reserved.


^Correct?


1. Is this layered or stacking with other elemental % resists(armor, feats) of the same elemental type?   layer = %(%(%)).  Stack = %+%+% 
 
2. Does this function identically on Npcs (injectors, dart) and if so, what is the typical Npc tox amount?

ok, thx.   Should probably be wiki'd.   It was never absolutely clear to me.


And the Npcs?   What tox do they typically have and does it work?   ie, always 100 tox or does it go >100 with increasing level?

The numbers haven't been tweaked at all, either. The new description just describes what they've always done. For NPCs they just get resistance that caps out after a fixed amount of damage (varies by NPC level and also which henchman you get) since they don't have tox scores.

Not having tox doesn't mean the same thing as always having a cap of zero.

No, there isn't anything that convoluted going on. On a PC you get the effect as described, on an NPC you get something pretty close to it, but scripted in a different way because there isn't an NPC toxicity system that matches the PC one.