Least resisted powersets

So after getting fed up of tips on my Archery/Energy Blaster due to everyone and their cat resisting most of my damage I started to think about what powersets I could use to not get resisted as much and be able to keep my full damage output on the variety of enemy groups encountered in tips and other missions.

I'm thinking it may be toxic but we don't get primarily toxic powersets (Our only toxic damage is in Spines, Thorns, Widows and Demons)

So I guess the next up are Psionics and Fire... Psionics I think are only resisted by Arachnos and Fire I think is just CoT Behemoths? Though Fire Melee also does some lethal damage (Due to the swords)

Anyone know the least resisted damage type and what groups resist it? If I know that I'd be able to narrow down the powersets I can use for a new alt (Probably a fire blaster) or I'll get back on an old one (Mind/Psi dom, that I stopped playing because I felt useless in the team I was on)

Psi damage is heavily resisted in the late game and especially by most Robots -- that is one of the reasons my Illusion/Rad took the Fire APP to do better damage against Psi-resistant foes.

There are a few foes who resist Fire, like those Baphomet from the CoT, but it is one of the less-resisted types of damage. I think there are even fewer who resist Cold Damage. My Ice/Ice/Cold Blaster rarely has a drop in his damage due to a foe resisting Cold.

My guess would be Cold, followed by Fire. Definitely not psi though.

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Hmm, I may try an Ice/Kin Corruptor...

Not very resisted damage and when it does get resisted (CoT and Crey I think resist cold) I've got a bucket load of +damage to hit them with...

Negative Energy also does well as a damage type with few things in game resisting it. The catch, most enemies that resist it (mostly forms of undead) do so heavily.

I'll +1 vote for Cold because the number of sets with it (ice melee, e.g.), but I think really it would be Toxic, and maybe Fire as third.

So what you'd *really* want is a DS/dark (or storm) MM or a DP/MM blaster (you'd have a damage set to counter every set of resists)

I'd go for Fire or Dark.
Dark is resisted by CoT and Banished Pantheon.
Cold is resisted by Freakshow as well as by cold-using enemies.
Psi is a really bad idea since it gets resisted heavily when it is resisted.

But on the whole, its a pretty even tie. I saw a sp[readhseet circulated around here ages ago. Lethal does on average around 92% full damage, other sets do around 95% full damage assuming an even spread of enemy types, Fire maybe creeping up to 96% or so?

"Psi is a really bad idea since it gets resisted heavily when it is resisted."

This. Psionic isn't resisted that often, but when it is (Carnies, Arachnos, Robots) it gets resisted out of the wazoo (although technically carnies have Psi Def and not that much Psi Res)

Negative Energy is similar (undead resist it heavily)

Fire and Cold seems to be your best bets.

Sonic is always a viable choice as well. Yes, it is two commonly resisted damage types (smashing/energy), but the secondary effect of applying a -resistance debuff evens it out in the end. It will reduce the resistance of those enemies that resist S/E, and it will do even MORE damage against those that don't.

How about toxic?

DS/posion. Demons have alot of cold/fire/toxic damage, and while posion doesn't have any attacks it does have 2 res debuffs (one single target, can be perma on multiple hard targets, one AE around a pet, pretty sure it can't be made perma), and since they're all toxic based, they only have positional tags, no typed. So whenever a PP hits elude or MoG, you can keep up debuffs anyway, which should be hopefully enough to let pets land hits as well.

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[QUOTE=Kiwi;3367277]Well, if i remember correctly DP can only do about 30% of their damage as toxic, with the other 70% being lethal. Meaning most of the time my damage will still be significantly reduced.[quote]

EVery analysis I have seen shows that in 100% of circumstances, even against enemies like demons who have huge fire resist and sizeable cold vulnerability, you will do more damage with the fire ammo than any other.

The only other reliable source of toxic is spines and VEATs and they get very small amounts of it mixed with huge amounts of smashing/lethal damage.

So toxic isn't really an option for us yet. I always did wish that rad was energy/toxic mixed. But oh well.

@Kondo:

I've found that a Fire/Dark Corrupter is always a force to be reckoned with. You get fire damage plus -resist from tarpatch and lots of -tohit to keep you safe. As an extra bonus you get a great AOE stun that also does -regen.

Cold/Cold is nasty on either a Corr and a defender and there really is nothing better than a soul drained blizzard for killing everything in the room.