Actually all of the ideas are good. I see nothing wrong in stacking resistances. There aren't that many sources of DR resistance to begin with... I also see nothing wrong in making it a projectile and nothing wrong in increasing the numer of monsters able to cast it.

IMO, all this would do is make it *worse* for the player with the major concern I have, as now they need to stack multiple items in order to survive something that, if they kept out of the line of fire/sight, they could handle quite well. My concern is that a player should *not* have to keep specific gear around just for one specific enemy. Having the option to do so is one thing, but most other creatures, you can find alternative ways to deal with it.

For example: instead of Rings Of Ice, you can carry a Fireproof Blanket and wear low-melt things; instead of being forced to use a Ring Of Karmic Absorption, you can fight at range or with spells; instead of a Phase Dagger, you can use spells, piercing/slaying ammo, a lucky find on a 'of penetration', or have high enough damage to penetrate high PV.

For a creature with Death Ray, at the moment, you have Death Ray resistance, or you stay out of the line of fire of that ray. With your suggestion, you would have absolutely no option for fighting that opponent *except* to wear items of Death Ray Resistance, and even then there's a likely chance that your character will die because it still does vast amounts of damage, so you need to *somehow* find multiple (when there is only two guaranteed that will not rape your stats with corruption) and pray it's enough to fight the enemy. In addition, most of those guaranteed sources require you to do Chaotic acts, so say goodbye to your Platinum Girdle if you want to have a chance of fighting against any enemy that uses a Death Ray. And being as at least one of those Death Ray using opponents is a mandatory kill, that would make the Platinum Girdle game even more prohibitively difficult than it already is.

Not only does this force the character to *have* to fight them in only one way, but it forces the character to pray for the whim of the RNG for a rare resistance. This, to me, is why it's just too problematic to make it a projectile.

Show me a game when you don't have a single amulet of death ray resistance by the Mana Temple. That's already 2.

"The endgame is boring and easy", for players who have experience going through it. Maybe you should be looking at ways to make the end game more challenging for veteran players while not making the threshold for newer players to overcome much higher; instead it seems that at every step of the game, Kordi82, you are in favor of changes that would make the game many times harder/more frustrating for less experienced players, at the benefit of making your own experience slightly more "fun."

I didn't. You have to dig a grave to get that, and digging graves is a chaotic act.

I do not even know how to comment on this... will leave this with a moment of silence.

Yes. That was my exact point. As I said earlier, if you are *required* to do Chaotic acts in order to get enough items for -Deth, then it makes Paragon prohibitively difficult. :)

If you want to play restriction games, please put another thread or RFE to balance any . Mixing it into general conversation is.... (I will leave three dots not to put offensive language, but go figure). It's like saying -" please do not change the weight of elemental orbs cause it will make Lithium Man impossible to accomplish".\\

If you want to play restriction games, please put another thread or RFE to balance any . Mixing it into general conversation is.... (I will leave three dots not to put offensive language, but go figure). It's like saying -" please do not change the weight of elemental orbs cause it will make Lithium Man impossible to accomplish".\\