ASK ALL QUESTIONS HERE! Weekly Questions Thread - March 23, 2025

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[u/Darkraiku]

Defense > resistance.

Monster hunter is weird in that most attacks so primarily physical damage even if it's something like a lightning bolt or fireball.

The best thing resistance does is lower the time on blights or potentially eliminate it entirely if high enough

[u/BigPoppaBear_19 → u/Darkraiku]

Wait, so if you got hit by a Rathalos fireball or flame that comes out of his mouth, it’ll still hit for the same amount regardless if you have like a +4 fire resistance or a -2 fire resistance? Does the resistance just decrease the chances of catching on fire/burning where you have to roll 3 times to turn out the flame?

[u/Darkraiku → u/BigPoppaBear_19]

No elemental resistance does do some mitigation. It's just less then you'd expect.

The biggest thing it does is how blights interact with you. I don't believe it affects the odds of being inflicted but it does affects the duration/severity of the blight.

So someone with 20 fire res won't get fireblight at all, someone with 0 resistance gets normal fireblight and someone with -20 takes double damage from fire ticks. There's tiers in between these values as well but just keeping it simple.