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Having a bunch of Fire weapons in Frostburn Canyon has made me notice sometimes my fire weapons (even a high powered sniper rifle) deal absolutely no damage or extremely low damage (3-4 points) on enemies that resist fire and sometimes they deal lower but still moderately okay damage. I've hit critical headshots to no damage (or moderate damage) on resisting enemies too.

Is elemental resist a % chance? Does it only effect shots that "proc" and hit with an elemental effect? Why are some of my shots getting through while others aren't?

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  • Sometimes some enemies have armor on specific parts of the body. Perhaps you're hitting those sometimes and others getting through to their weak points?
    – Mufasa
    Commented Sep 20, 2012 at 13:39
  • @Mufasa it's possible, I noticed it on Nomad Pyros and they do seem to have armor of sorts
    – Zelda
    Commented Sep 20, 2012 at 13:59

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In Borderlands 2 enemies will take significantly less damage from weapons utilizing elements they have a resistance to.

Quote from Borderlands wiki:

Elemental nerfing - Whereas in Borderlands an elemental-based enemy (e.g. a fire skag) could be killed with sheer bullet damage from a similarly based elemental weapon (e.g. a Hellfire SMG), in Borderlands 2 enemies will take significantly less damage from weapons utilizing elements they have a resistance to.

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  • Useful info, but the OP mentions the damage disparity from the same gun on the same enemy. So there must be another factor somewhere.
    – Alex
    Commented Sep 21, 2012 at 13:33
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Certain enemies do have a chance to resist certain elements. For example corrosive spiderants will completely nullify corrosive damage taken occasionally and do take far less corrosive damage over all. So you'll definitely have to switch to another element to reliably fight them. I'm afraid I don't know the exact % of the time that they will nullify, you'd have to examine the game's code for that.

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