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How does IED work?

DFDFDDFDFD
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edited January 2018 in General Chat
I once read on reddit that the way it works is that you simply multiply [100%-(your IED)] by your enemy's PDR to calculate their final damage reduction.
So say if you have 90% IED and your enemy has 50 PDR, you'd deal 5% reduced damage, and if they have 250 PDR you'd deal 25% reduced damage.
In actuality I have almost 97% IED on my character and I've observed that on some bosses, say nark, I deal 60m lines, while on others, like nmag , hhilla or cra, I deal only around 30m lines. If it worked like I was told then the difference would be hardly noticeable. Is there another reason for the difference, or is the way I was explained how PDR/IED works wildly incorrect? lv 220 shade on Reboot if it's relevant.

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  • RexaarRexaar
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    edited January 2018
    You are correct in how ignore enemy defense work.

    Most major bosses (Hilla, Magnus, Chaos Root Abyss bosses, Cygnus, ...) also have elemental/physical damage resistance (fire, lighting, poison, darkness, holy, fire, ice and physical damage is reduced by 50%, this is reduced by "ignored elemental resistance" effect which most non-mage can have maximum of 5%)
  • DarkPassengerDarkPassenger
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    edited January 2018
    Yep, IED is multiplicative
  • DFDFDDFDFD
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    edited January 2018
    Rexaar wrote: »
    You are correct in how ignore enemy defense work.

    Most major bosses (Hilla, Magnus, Chaos Root Abyss bosses, Cygnus, ...) also have elemental/physical damage resistance (fire, lighting, poison, darkness, holy, fire, ice and physical damage is reduced by 50%, this is reduced by "ignored elemental resistance" effect which most non-mage can have maximum of 5%)
    Does ignore elemental resistance affect non-mage classes?
  • DarkPassengerDarkPassenger
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    edited January 2018
    DFDFD wrote: »
    Rexaar wrote: »
    You are correct in how ignore enemy defense work.

    Most major bosses (Hilla, Magnus, Chaos Root Abyss bosses, Cygnus, ...) also have elemental/physical damage resistance (fire, lighting, poison, darkness, holy, fire, ice and physical damage is reduced by 50%, this is reduced by "ignored elemental resistance" effect which most non-mage can have maximum of 5%)
    Does ignore elemental resistance affect non-mage classes?

    Yeah, physical attacks are still considered an element
  • DFDFDDFDFD
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    edited January 2018
    DarkPassenger wrote: »
    DFDFD wrote: »
    Rexaar wrote: »
    You are correct in how ignore enemy defense work.

    Most major bosses (Hilla, Magnus, Chaos Root Abyss bosses, Cygnus, ...) also have elemental/physical damage resistance (fire, lighting, poison, darkness, holy, fire, ice and physical damage is reduced by 50%, this is reduced by "ignored elemental resistance" effect which most non-mage can have maximum of 5%)
    Does ignore elemental resistance affect non-mage classes?

    Yeah, physical attacks are still considered an element
    That's really helpful then! So far I've been completely ignoring the ignore elemental resist hyper stat, but I guess now I should give it some love.
    Edit- I just realized there's no such hyper stat lol.
    So no way around this?