Talk:Vargulis, First Brood/@comment-98.185.151.162-20150516040637/@comment-108.201.167.24-20150518032109

Actually, the Water Piercing v. Water Resistance calculation is incorrect. There was a lengthy thread on this topic in the forums a few months ago, and it was definitively stated that negative Elemental Resistance has no effect in PVP. Basically, each Elemental Piercing goes up against any matching Elemental Resistance, first, and then up against Physical Resistance, before it does any damage, but having negative Elemental Resistance doesn't cause you to take any additional damage - again, specific to PvP. My thought is that the next monster in the set, as Thantos Reborn/Cronus/Vargulis have each had 2 Alchemy Items, so it's obvious that their should be a 4th and final Monster with the remaining 2 Item Types in this set, will have some sort of Water Resistance, and so everyone attacking will be at a huge disadvantage from using the gear from this set against it, since in PvP, confusingly, Elemental Resistance is overcome by Elemental Resistance of the same type, not the matching Elemental Piercing. Either that, or the next Monster will drop items with Water Piercing, and negative Fire Resistance, so the two sets of equipment negate each other.