Diablo – What, exactly, does physical resistance protect against
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Does it apply for all non-elemental attacks, or is there more going on here?
Best Answer
All damage has a type. Damage that is not associated with a specific element is of the "physical" type. Physical resist specifically protects against this type of damage.
To make the game more simple at start some types of unneeded(at the time) pre/surfixes are not available at Normal. Elemental resistance are some of the magic bonuses you can not get on Normal, so you just need to keep playing on Nightmare and you should start seeing them pop up.
As far as I can tell it DOES affect bosses, and it triggers off anything that deals % weapon damage (the damage dealing components of all monk abilities).
Best Answer
All damage has a type. Damage that is not associated with a specific element is of the "physical" type. Physical resist specifically protects against this type of damage.