Resistances
Resistances are variables that highly influences the negative efffect skills chance and magical damage, and there are many of them in Lineage 2, so if you want to use them corectly, you need to understand what kind of skill's each one of them influences, so you can use the correct itens and buffs to strengthen your debuff and elemental resistances. Remember that the skill success rate also depends on other things, like the skill chance, enchantment and basic status points, so the resistances are just one part of the skill's success rate and damage equasion, get to know all of them and the main buffs that increases them in the content below.
Shock and Stun Resistance
Stuns are skills that completely let your character defenseless for a short time, and some of them can weaken your defenses as well during the stun time, like Armor Crush and Shock Blast, so this resistance is one of the most important for when you're playing against most fighters. There are many itens and skills that can increase it, such as Resist Shock, Lionheart, War Frenzy and Fortitude, and increasing your CON points will also increase this resistance.
Debuff Resistance
We call debuffs skills that has a negative effect on the opponent, but they aren't considered only debuffs when it comes for the resistance status, because they can be separated in many kinds of debuffs. Still, the debuff resistance works against most magical debuff skills, such as the Seal of Suspension and Seal of Despair, and you can increase it with the Arcane Protection, Chant of Spirit or Pa'agrio's Emblem buff and more MEN points. The buffs Chant of Victory, Magnus Chant, Prophecy of Fire, Prophecy of Water, Prophecy of Wind and Victories of Pa'agrio gives debuff resistance as well.
Cancellation Resistance
Cancel resistance is the variable that works against magical skills that can remove buffs from the opponent, such as Warrior Bane, Mage Bane and Cancellation, but unfortunately there aren't many ways to increase it, except with the buffs Arcane Protection, Chant of Spirit, Magnus Chant, Pa'agrio's Emblem or Lionheart, yet in some servers administrators change them to work 100% anyway.
Hold Resistance
For the Lineage 2 code, everything related to reducing the opponent's speed is considered hold, plus the hold skills itself, so this variable works against physical and magical holds and slow skills, such as Entangle, Slow, Hamstring, Dryad Root, Shackle and Arrest. The main buff to increase this resistance is Mental Shield, which you can get through the buff sticks inside the olympiad or Lionheart, but there are some itens that increases it as well.
Sleep Resistance
Most magicians have at least one skill that can make your character fall asleep for a while, be it Trance, Sleep or Dreaming Spirit, and this is the resistance against them. It can also be increased with Mental Shield, Lionheart and some itens in the game, such as the Nightmare Sets.
Paralysis Resistance
This resistance is very important against human mages like Arcana Lords and Soultakers, because they can completely paralyze you for 8 or 15 seconds with the magic from the Binding Cubic or the Anchor skill, in some servers it can even be 30 seconds if it's not well configured. There is also the Paralyze augment that can work sometimes, so be careful with them, because only the Dark Crystal sets, Frintezza's Necklace and Lionheart buff can increase this resistance.
Derangement Resistance
Derangements are considered the skills that has a kind of psycology effect at the opponent, such as Fears and Silences. This resistance is greatly increased with Mental Shield as well, but there aren't many itens that can increase it.
Poison Resistance
The poison resistance works against magical skills that makes damage over time, such as Freezing Flame, Freezing Shackle, Decay, etc. The only buff that increases this resistance is Resist Poison, but there are many itens that can increase it as well.
Bleed Resistance
Bleed resistance works against wounds made by magical or physical skills, but there aren't many bleeding skills in the game, they are pretty much only Bleed, Sting and Ice Dagger. There is only one buff that increases this resistence too, which is Invigor from the Hierophant, but there are a lot of itens that can do it instead.
Holy/Light Resistance
Starting with the elementary resistances, we have the light resistance, which decreases the damage from magical skills embed with the light attribute, such as the Solar Flare and Light Vortex. Most elements have three respective buffs that works against them, but for the light element we have only Divine Protection and Holy Resistance.
Unholy/Dark Resistance
The dark resistance works against magical skills embed with the dark element, such as Death Spike, Vampiric Claw, Curse Death Link and Dark Vortex. To increase the dark resistance we have the buffs Divine Protection, Unholy Resistance and Song of Invocation, as for the itens, we only have the epic jewel Frintezza's Necklace to increase it.
Fire Resistance
The fire resistance works against magical skills embed with the fire element, such as Prominence, Fire Vortex and Surrender To Fire. To increase the fire resistance we have the buffs Elemental Protection, Magnus Chant, Resist Fire (gets removed when Surrender To Fire works) and Song of Flame Guard, as for the itens, we only have the epic jewel Necklace of Valakas to increase it.
Water Resistance
The water resistance works against magical skills embed with the water element, such as Hydro Blast, Ice Vortex and Surrender To Water. To increase the water resistance we have the buffs Elemental Protection, Magnus Chant, Resist Water (gets removed when Surrender To Water works) and Dance of Aqua Guard, however, there is no item that increases this resistance on the Interlude.
Wind Resistance
The wind resistance works against magical skills embed with the wind element, such as Hurricane, Wind Vortex and Surrender To Wind. To increase the wind resistance we have the buffs Elemental Protection, Magnus Chant, Resist Wind (gets removed when Surrender To Wind works) and Song of Storm Guard, however, there is no item that increases this resistance on the Interlude.
Earth Resistance
The earth resistance works against magical and physical skills embed with the earth element, such as Decay, Item Skill: Stone and Surrender To Earth. To increase the earth resistance we have the buffs Elemental Protection, Magnus Chant and Dance of Earth Guard, as for the itens, we only have the epic jewel Earring of Antharas to increase it.
Terrain Resistance
This is the resistance against falling from high places, so according to this resistance and the hight that you fall, you will take some damage directly in your HP. You can only increase this resistance through the buffs Dance of Protection and the augment Iron Body (Active and/or Passive).
Breath Resistance
