Fire Resistance is not being calculated

1. Reproduction Rate: 100%
2. Blocker? N

Details:

Since r38 release I have been fighting in the Rise. I do the same basic run by myself and over the last few patches I have noticed that the Elven Mages hit extremely hard with their fireballs. I decided to test my theory that Fire Resistance was not calculating and I made a new set of armor, shield, and weapon that has Sorcery Ward gems on them which gave me +60 Fire Resistance combined with my lvl 82 Fire Resist skill in the fire tree.

Wearing my old armor I fought 2 Elven Mages and here are their attacks in order (10 hits total):
123
130
166 (crit)
120
98
124
156 (crit)
197 (crit)
77
133
Total = 1324

I then put on the new armor that gives me the +60 fire resistance and fought 2 Elven Mages and here are their attacks in order (10 hits total)
105
102
112
115
186 (crit)
123
217 (crit)
150 (crit)
108
131
Total= 1132

As you can see the numbers are about the same, and while the +60 fire resistance armor does have less total damage, its still not a significant amount for a +60 increase and I believe with a larger sample size this would even out and both numbers would be fairly equal.

In addition I have found some similar issues with other resistances as well as Shields and arrows in regards to combat block, but that is for another tale... hehe

@Chris

 

i agree with this... fire resistance seems not working correctly.