Quote Originally Posted by Scape View Post
has anyone done testing to see if it helps with magic resistance? I thought I read somewhere that they will raise the resistance of the opposing element. Like having a high Earth elemental property would lower your damage to Water attacks or something. Lots of enemies also have elemental properties to their regular attacks too.
I have tested elemental point stats and armor stats on sundrakes.
I left my stats at base, I then raised by Wind stat and gathered all the +wind armor I could find.
Lastly I raised my fire stat as well as buying up all the +fire gear I could find.

The results: There was no significant statistical variation on the damage I received fighting sundrakes and specifically their fire attack when I adjusted my elemental stats or left it alone.

The only consistent change in the damage amount I saw was when I was fighting either a rank 61, 62, 63, or 64 sundrake or by using defense abilities like Sentinel, Rampart, Tempered Will, or Defender. Rampart II being the clear winner with reducing damage down to 25%, while the rest did considerably less. Emulate ain't that great, unless you are fighting a NM with high elemental stats that are through the roof and they are using ranged or magic attacks on you. That's right, if you're tanking Batraal or Deepvoid Slave, forget about using Emulate unless you plan on tanking them at range.

And yeah, and I even tried armor that cuts breath attack damage, and still saw no reduction against the sundrake's fire/breath attacks.