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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5685521" data-attributes="member: 3424">Personally, I'd rather apply Resist all once per damage type rather than once per attack because the per attack interpretation can result in some odd corner cases.For example, consider the power invoked devastation (Invoker Attack 29, Divine Power). The user makes a single attack roll and compares the result against each target's Fortitude, Reflex and Will defenses. If the attack roll exceeds the target's Fortitude, it takes force damage and ongoing cold damage. If the attack roll exceeds the target's Reflex, it takes lightning damage and ongoing fire damage. If the attack roll exceeds the target's Will, it takes radiant damage and ongoing psychic damage. Is this considered one or three attacks? If this is considered one attack, than you get the odd case that the attacks would be resisted separately if the power had been worded so that the user made a separate attack roll against each defense. Compare this example with the deathrattle viper (L5 Brute, MM), which has a bite attack that deals untyped damage and the target is subject to a secondary attack which deals poison damage. Is this considered one or two attacks? If it is considered two attacks, then you get the odd case that resistance would have been applied only once if the viper's bite dealt untyped damage plus poison damage, such as an ixitxachitl demon ray's (L3 Skirmisher, Demonomicon) tail barb.</blockquote>