What (if anything) breaks DR on Risia Portal?

[brian14]

Last night (after power came back up! ) I took my Bard 14 into Reaver's Refuge for the first time. With fighter 13 hireling, Aussircaex Valley was difficult but doable. I got one rare, the Risia Portal, but it took a long time. I used Axiomatic Burst greatsword of Pure Good, and got both chaotic and good damage numbers, but every swing had 10 points blocked by DR. Is there a way to bypass it?

I was actually surprised I got chaotic damage -- looks like Risia Portal is Lawful Evil construct, much like Shroud portals are.

[Spoprockel]

I'm pretty sure it's DR10/-

No way to break it

[dkyle]

I was actually surprised I got chaotic damage -- looks like Risia Portal is Lawful Evil construct, much like Shroud portals are.

It's almost like the Devs were lazy and used the exact same "monster" in both places.

A Risia portal might be subject to Good damage, but it certainly shouldn't be subject to Chaos damage.

[AZgreentea]

It's almost like the Devs were lazy and used the exact same "monster" in both places.

A Risia portal might be subject to Good damage, but it certainly shouldn't be subject to Chaos damage.

Wouldnt the portal be neutral, and therefore subject to Chaotic and Lawful damage? I dont recall if Risia is a lawfully aligned plane.

I would think a Risia portal would be vulnerable to Fire damage.

**EDIT looking into it a little, I think Risia is neutral evil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_P...rron_cosmology

[dkyle]

Wouldnt the portal be neutral, and therefore subject to Chaotic and Lawful damage? I would think a Risia portal would be vulnerable to Fire damage.

Yeah, meant damage from Anarchic (which deals Chaos type damage). True Law and True Chaos should work on a Neutral portal.

And I would think so, too, on the fire damage.

[somenewnoob]

Auto attack + smoke break

[Bodic]

Auto attack + smoke break

for non smokers thats an Auto attack +10 AFK.

[Jaid314]

best weapon possible is a +5 smiting of greater construct bane. good luck finding (and i do mean finding, you can't craft) one, though.

best craftible is +5 anarchic burst of greater construct bane, which is still pretty danged good. and if you make it adamantine, is an excellent general-purpose construct beater that can break Marut DR.

[dkyle]

best weapon possible is a +5 smiting of greater construct bane. good luck finding (and i do mean finding, you can't craft) one, though.

Smiting and GCB are both suffixes.

The best is +5 Anarchic burst of Smiting. Or Holy Burst if not a Monk, but Anarchic is still nice as a double duty Portal/Marut beater.

[shadow_419]

best weapon possible is a +5 smiting of greater construct bane. good luck finding (and i do mean finding, you can't craft) one, though.

best craftible is +5 anarchic burst of greater construct bane, which is still pretty danged good. and if you make it adamantine, is an excellent general-purpose construct beater that can break Marut DR.

You won't find a +5 smiting of GCB since smiting is a weapon suffix.

[bobbert22193]

According to the wiki it is DR 10/-

[Jaid314]

hmmm... right. so until the devs release a crazy named item that is specially designed to slaughter constructs, no smiting/GCB... well, AB of GCB is still pretty danged good

[nibel]

Jusat to point out: Any breakable DR says so in the combat log. It shows something like "You hit monster for 50 damage after 10 was blocked by adamantine damage reduction".

[Shade]

Planar gateway from dps challenge:

HP:12,000
DR:10/- (Cant bypass)
Lawful Evil
Type: Construct
Race: Inanimate Object
Special Qualities: Immume to elemental damage.

Exact same monster as in Shroud. Does not scale ever as it's a fixed CR0 object. Also deals no damage to your weaponry unlike most things.

it's a good gauge of your dps. Top DPS builds can kill it in the 30-50 second range. Hirelings probably take like 10minutes heh.

[Jaid314]

Hirelings probably take like 10minutes heh.

hirelings probably manage to get themselves killed fighting one, somehow. they're pretty nasty, those portals, with their vicious attacks! why, that's why everyone needs blur, energy resists, and greater heroism in part 1, right?! to protect them from the portals and their vicious spellcasting capabilities and their equally vicious melee capabilities?