Items of Smiting: are all bosses immune?

[hacknslash]

As an experiment I equipped 2 items of smiting before facing Epic Typhon with my Ranger. One ring had 3% chance of 96% reduction in health and the other had 3% of 92% reduction in health.

The main reason I wanted to try was because Typhon is tedious and must have a certain amount of pierce res since my arrows using Teucer's warbow weren't really that damaging.

However, the items never affected him in that long fight but on some Tigerman it visibly triggered several times within a few minute period with fewer arrows fired. You can see it happen, the enemy health meter just drops to a sliver with one shot and pets can just knock them out.

So this cheesy strategy did not effect Typhon but I wondered if that was for all bosses? What about heroes, do you think heroes are immune as well especially guys like Toxeus?

[ToastOfAges]

if i'm not mistaken all bosses have a enormous resistance against life reduction. Not sure about hero monsters (i tried it to on typhon, 2 rings of smiting and a pendant ^^, didn't work)

[hacknslash]

Ok that makes sense. This falls under life drain resistance then. I bet smiting won't effect undead at all then. Well just an experiment, too many resists sacrificed by using those anyway. Now if a weapon had smiting built in that would be fun.

[Poinas]

The percentage is as high as 96% if I remember correctly. So if your ring has 95% reduction to HP, it would translate to only about 4%.

It doesn't fall under life drain resistance. There is a specific resistance for monsters, resistance to life reduction.

[The Envenomed Kiss]

It's flat 100% in legendary

[Creslyn]

Sapros + smiting is the way to go.