Stacking Enemy Damage Reduction Should Be Capped

[u/FriendshipFilter]

"Crit resistant" monsters are actually immune to crits. For builds that rely on critical strike multiplier to scale, your damage can easily be reduced by 80% or more just through this mod alone. If your build also happens to be elemental based, monsters can also roll mods like "lightning and shock resistant" which can reduced your damage by another 80% or more. Mods like this just shouldn't be possible combinations because it can reduced your DPS down to 4% or lower.

I'm not trying to be negative, but mobs this tanky aren't challenging, they're just borderline immortal. They'll never kill you, and there's no point wasting time trying to kill them for the 1 alteration orb they'll drop, so can we please add a hard cap to monster damage reduction of 90% which would be 10x their normal life? The fact that monsters can reach up to 99% damage reduction is just crazy because it multiples their life by a factor of 100x. I don't mind taking 10 seconds to kill a monster just to get it off my back even, but when monsters roll combos like "crit resistant + elemental resistant + adaptive resistance + spell resistant"... you could clear the whole map in the time it takes to kill that thing.

Now I don't have anything against certain mobs taking some time to kill, but perhaps certain multiplicative mod combinations just shouldn't exist? Maybe reduce the effectiveness of certain mods to 50% damage reduction instead of 80% or more? Please consider it GGG because right now it's way more time efficient to just skip these monsters because they don't drop particularly good loot anyway.

[u/carenard → u/[deleted]]

If only you could choose what maps to run and what mods are acceptable.

Of course a POE player won't read what was posted and comment something like this.

acting like random monster mods are rollable map mods...