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The Annihilating Light QuarterstaffStaff Physical Damage: 51-86 Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 68, 78 Str, 78 Int+18% Chance to BlockAttack Damage while wielding a Staff(60-70)% reduced Elemental Resistances Elemental Skills deal Triple DamageThere is no force more destructive in the heavens than the scintillating light of utter clarity.
The Annihilating Light is a uniqueQuarterstaffQuarterstaffStaff Physical Damage: 51-86 Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 45, 78 Str, 78 Int+18% Chance to BlockAttack Damage while wielding a Staff.
Minions skills do not inherently deal damage; they summon a minion which deals damage. Triple damage would not apply to Elemental Minions in this case.
#% reduced resistances (NOT a -#% to Resistances) is an additive modifier to increase/reduced resistance mods. (i.e. sum up all increase/reduced resistance mods first and then use that total to multiply with the sum of +#% or -#% to X resistances from mods, passives and Kitava; if it is 10% increase, it is times 110%, if it is 10% reduced, it is times 90%; if there is more/less resistance, use the product of the previous calculation to multiply with) Net reduced resistance mod made your Uncapped Resistances (in Character Screen) converge (towards) to zero, while net increase resistance mod diverged the resistance from zero.
Similar mod can be found on Blight unique helmets and other items such as Glimpse of ChaosGlimpse of Chaos Vaal MaskEvasion: (207-239) Energy Shield: (37-43)Requires Level 62, 79 Dex, 72 Int<Can roll a special implicit when corrupted>Can be modified while Corrupted (30-40)% increased maximum Life and reduced Fire Resistance (30-40)% increased maximum Mana and reduced Cold Resistance (30-40)% increased Global maximum Energy Shield and reduced Lightning Resistance Chaos Resistance is ZeroCorruptedMan retains sanity and strives toward civilisation only under the blessed veil of ignorance.; while Tempered by War has 50% less # Resistance mod, which is multiplicative to increase/reduce resistance instead of being additive.
Larger reduced resistance value (say 30% vs. larger 50%) by stacking such reduced resistances mods from similar items, will turn into negative resistances (from the sum of +#% or -#% to X resistances from all items and Kitava's penalty , say -10%) will become less negative (toward zero; -10%*(100%-30%)=-7% verse -10%*(100%-50%)=-5% ), so it has anti-synergy with Doryani's PrototypeDoryani's Prototype Saint's HauberkArmour: (1107-1488) Energy Shield: (190-255) Movement Speed: -5%Requires Level 67, 109 Str, 94 Int(150-200)% increased Armour and Energy Shield +(60-90) to maximum Life Deal no Non-Lightning Damage Armour also applies to Lightning Damage taken from Hits Lightning Resistance does not affect Lightning Damage taken Nearby Enemies have Lightning Resistance equal to yours"This was the first step in some grand design, lost to the ages, now ours to decipher." - Dominus, High Templar.
There is a cap of 100% reduce resistance in-game[1] so that you can never flip the res from positive to negative by overflowing the reduced resistance value.
With a 60% reduced res roll , starting from -60% baseline (post Act 10 Kitava), you would need a total of +247.5% fire resistance mods to reach 75% fire resistance. (same for cold/lightning)
With a 75% reduced res roll, starting from -60% baseline (post Act 10 Kitava), you would need +360% fire resistance mods to reach 75% fire resistance. (same for cold/lightning)
Strategies
Using this staff with any Cowl helmet (e.g. Cowl of the ThermophileCowl of the Thermophile Ezomyte BurgonetArmour: (553-685)Requires Level 60, 138 StrCan have a second Enchantment Modifier +(20-30) to all Attributes (60-80)% increased Armour Fire Resistance is 75% (55-50)% reduced Cold Resistance (55-50)% reduced Lightning ResistanceThe villagers seared the blight with fire, but it only spread like dancing flames.This item can be anointed by Cassia; consequentially gaining >100% reduced Resistances) will cause your non-overridden resist to permanently be at 0, and will not invert them. Even with Thermophile + Divine Flesh or Tempered by War, you would still be taking half of all Cold and Lightning damage to 0 Cold/Lightning Res.
Incandescent HeartIncandescent Heart Saintly ChainmailArmour: (1283-1567) Energy Shield: (307-374) Movement Speed: -5%Requires Level 70, 99 Str, 115 Int(220-240)% increased Armour and Energy Shield +(80-90) to maximum Life (0.8-1)% of Attack Damage Leeched as Life Gain (10-20)% of Elemental Damage as Extra Chaos Damage 25% of Elemental Damage from Hits taken as Chaos Damage (20-30)% increased Light Radius Light Radius is based on Energy Shield instead of LifeOnly light may banish the shadows from this land And the black lies wrapped around your heart + Divine Flesh is an option to take 75% of Elemental Hits and 50% of Elemental DOTs as Chaos damage (to avoid investing into elemental resists); this allows the use of Glimpse of ChaosGlimpse of Chaos Vaal MaskEvasion: (207-239) Energy Shield: (37-43)Requires Level 62, 79 Dex, 72 Int<Can roll a special implicit when corrupted>Can be modified while Corrupted (30-40)% increased maximum Life and reduced Fire Resistance (30-40)% increased maximum Mana and reduced Cold Resistance (30-40)% increased Global maximum Energy Shield and reduced Lightning Resistance Chaos Resistance is ZeroCorruptedMan retains sanity and strives toward civilisation only under the blessed veil of ignorance. as long as you remove the line Chaos Resistance is Zero with a Vaal OrbVaal OrbStack Size: 20Corrupts an item, modifying it unpredictablyRight click this item then left click an item to corrupt it. Corrupted items cannot be modified again..
Transcendence is another option, stacking Armour and additional Physical Damage Reduction.
Crystallised OmniscienceCrystallised Omniscience Onyx AmuletRequires Level 61+(10-16) to all AttributesModifiers to Attributes instead apply to Omniscience +1% to all Elemental Resistances per 15 Omniscience Penetrate 1% Elemental Resistances per 15 Omniscience Attribute Requirements can be satisfied by (15-25)% of OmniscienceThat winter, scorched refugees emerged from the shrine, speaking only in strange tongues. They prayed to a new symbol of power, not out of love, but out of fear. can provide large amounts of Elemental Resistances, as well as Elemental Penetration, making it a nice synergetic unique.
Item acquisition
The Annihilating Light has restrictions on where or how it can drop. It cannot be chanced.
QuarterstaffQuarterstaffStaff
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Glimpse of ChaosGlimpse of Chaos
; while Tempered by War has 50% less # Resistance mod, which is multiplicative to increase/reduce resistance instead of being additive.
Doryani's PrototypeDoryani's Prototype
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Cowl of the ThermophileCowl of the Thermophile
; consequentially gaining >100% reduced Resistances) will cause your non-overridden resist to permanently be at 0, and will not invert them. Even with Thermophile + Divine Flesh or Tempered by War, you would still be taking half of all Cold and Lightning damage to 0 Cold/Lightning Res.
Incandescent HeartIncandescent Heart
+ Divine Flesh is an option to take 75% of Elemental Hits and 50% of Elemental DOTs as Chaos damage (to avoid investing into elemental resists); this allows the use of 
Vaal OrbVaal OrbStack Size: 20Corrupts an item, modifying it unpredictablyRight click this item then left click an item to corrupt it. Corrupted items cannot be modified again.
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Crystallised OmniscienceCrystallised Omniscience
can provide large amounts of Elemental Resistances, as well as Elemental Penetration, making it a nice synergetic unique.
