[Ray2064]

As an Ensui user I agree


But, in more seriousness, I always found odd how SL2 has so many of those 'win more' or 'lose more' mechanics, resists included. You lower your opponent's damage to a significant degree, then potentially disrupt their action economy right atop of that, lowering that said damage even more.

Again, this is rendered more significant by the fact those builds the most affected by said drop in action economy pretty much build their entire archetype around it, rendering them crippled. (See, basic attackers of any sorts)


The mechanic is probably this way as a way to balance out Spells, which RES alone isn't enough for most of the time due to how much damage they can dish out without much effort (Which is a whole another can of worm in itself) , but you then get stuck at the weird point where some weapons will inflict PHYSICAL elemental damage as part of their flavor, like the dragon swords,some shurikens or E-Axe, something that's actively detrimental due to those forms of resists being more common than the physical trio of Pierce, Slash, Blunt, and as such, actively lowering their damage output a good amount of the time.

Not to mention scoring a weakness is very rarely seen in a PVP scenario.

The momentum drop really only punishes basic attackers more than anything else, whereas a pure mage wouldn't care much about that 1M they missed out on, unless they would've liked to use the same spell twice.

Someone could tell you that it's on you if you mono-element, but, again, some builds can't have that luxury. (again basic attackers, unless you're lucky enough to pack Au Dela. Which is just as easily resisted ,so.)