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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5687411" data-attributes="member: 71571">Except it doesn't and never did.Arcane Admixture adds a damage type to existing damage.  Thusly making 2d6 acid damage into 2d6 fire and acid damage.  If you have resist 5 acid, and resist 5 fire, the rules for 'X and Y damage' already tell you that you only resist the -lowest- resistance, if it exists at all.No, those are all different kinds of resistance and stack if they apply to the same attack.The only thing that does NOT stack is the -same- resist.Resist fire does not stack with resist fire.  Resist all does not stack with resist all.  Resist kobold does not stack with resist kobold.  However, resist fire, resist all, and resist kobold DO stack. No, because it's one incident of damage.  As a check for this, ask:  If you have a feat that says 'When you are damaged' would it trigger once, or twice?As an example, there's a swordmage power that adds fire damage to attacks.  Not makes them fire damage, just adds your strength modifier in additional fire damage.  That's not an extra smack of damage, that's not going to trigger things twice.  It's -just additional damage.-  It just happens to have a type, and interacts with resistance, immunity, and vulnerability.  That's all it does.No, you don't.  If a resistance applies, it applies.  If a vunerability applies, it applies.  The only resistances that don't stack are the same resistance. Which is what actually happens.Uh... what?  No.  That's not at all what you need.If you're hit with 5 fire and cold damage, you'd need resist 5 fire, and resist 5 cold to resist 5 points of it.  If you have some 'resist 5 fire and cold' quality, that's actually resist 5 fire, and resist 5 cold.  It's two distinct resistances.It's almost like there's a fundamental misunderstanding on what 'fire and cold damage' is here.</blockquote>

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