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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5215861" data-attributes="member: 71571">First:If you take 10 fire and cold damage, and you have immunity to fire, that fire and cold damage isn't 'another effect'.  It's fire damage, and you're immune to it.Resistance is not the same thing as immunity.  They are not the same words.  They do not do the same things.They never have.From the PHB3:Immune: If you are immune to a damage type (such as cold or fire), you don't take that type of damage...Immunity to one part of a power does not make you immune to other parts of the power. For example, if you are immune to thunder, a power can deal no thunder damage to you, but the power could push you.[the parts about non-damaging immunities clipped for brevity and irrelevance]So, is that 10 fire and cold damage fire damage?  Yes.  It cannot be dealt to you, because all fire damage is prevented.Resistance on the other hand has a rule where if you are resistant to a damage type, and you are hit with a power with multiple damage types, you must have resistance to all those damage types.  However, that ONLY applies to damage types.  Resistance to melee and ranged attacks, resistance to all damage, resistance to arcane damage, resistance to weapon damage, all those things work fully against such powers because that rule ONLY applies to resistance to damage types.That means:  Resistance to fire, cold, thunder, lightning, radiant, necrotic, poison, or psychic.  Nothing else.  Immunity is not resistance to a damage type.  Resistance to untyped damage is not resistance to a damage type.</blockquote>

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