Adamantine Weapon

[Gorgoroth]

Afaik

"So a ranger with an +3 admantine sword attacking a critter with resist 10 would have 6 points automatically go through and then the rest would be subject to the resistance. "

If said ranger rolled 12 damage total, and the enemy had resist 10 all, hitting with this weapon would be the equivalent of hitting an enemy with resist 4 all, meaning you would do 8 damage.

What you just wrote would imply that he would do 6 damage in the end, since the rest would be resisted by the resist 10. That's not the way it works. (AFAIK)

By epic, for a non-frost cheese ranger who routinely fights resist X monsters, Adamantine results in a +10 / + 12 damage bonus to said creatures. Not a terrible properly to have IMO.

 

[chitzk0i]

By epic, for a non-frost cheese ranger who routinely fights resist X monsters, Adamantine results in a +10 / + 12 damage bonus to said creatures. Not a terrible properly to have IMO.

The issue is that there aren't enough suitable creatures for you to routinely fight them.

 

[Incenjucar]

It's certainly not going to come up in every fight, but it does have the added utility of being great for obliterating barriers and traps. It could probably use a daily power to go along with the rest, though.

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Another creature that has resist all is the Arkosian Siege Tower... but yeah, they aren't common.

 

[wlmartin]

The property of the Adamantine Weapon says this.



I have not found a single monster in the game that has resistance to Untyped damage. Not even golems have this kind of resistance. So is this an unutilized effect or am I just missing which monsters are affected?

Your point is valid... WotC must have made this thinking that they would use Resist a lot more than they do.

There arent a lot of creatures that have RESIST ALL as a feature but there are a lot of spells / items out there that give resistance to all and this could be useful against those.

But all in all, a bit of a waste from WotC... They should have instead made it work more like Silver and Cold Iron