Agony Resistance
"AR" redirects here. For the story dungeon, see Aetherblade Retreat. 
Agony Resistance is the attribute that mitigates the amount of damage taken from the 
Agony mechanic found exclusively in the Fractals of the Mists, a damaging effect that removes a percentage of max health per second, while significantly reducing incoming healing and barrier. Players without a sufficient amount of agony resistance will take a considerable amount of damage from agony very quickly, and can be instantly defeated at higher fractal difficulty scales.
Acquisition[edit]
Infusions[edit]
- Primary article: Infusion
- See also: Agony Infusion
The primary way to acquire agony resistance is to add Agony Infusions to infusion slots, found on all Ascended and Legendary equipment, and certain Exotics. Amulets are the only trinkets that cannot be upgraded with an infusion, having an enrichment slot instead.
+1 Agony Infusions are always obtained as a reward upon each completion of a fractal difficulty scale, as well as each of the reward chests from completing 
Daily Fractals, and can also drop from 
Cracked Fractal Encryptions (guaranteed with the 
Recursive Resourcing mastery). These can then be upgraded into higher +n Agony Infusions by trading with 
INFUZ-5959 or crafting with a level 100 
Artificer using 
Thermocatalytic Reagents. INFUZ-5959 also sells Fine (+5 AR), Masterwork (+7 AR), and Rare (+9 AR) infusions under the Attribute Infusion tabs, which provide an additional +5 to a specific attribute, such as the 
Mighty +9 Agony Infusion.
Other sources[edit]
Additional ways to increase agony resistance include:
Anguished Tear of Alba ― Grants 10 agony resistance for 1 hour via the effect 
Anguished Tear of Alba. Does not stack.
- Grants 15 agony resistance instead with Fractal Attunement Mastery completed, via the effect Anguished Tear of Alba.
- Grants 15 agony resistance instead with Fractal Attunement Mastery completed, via the effect
Rigorous Certainty ― An effect provided by interacting with a Mistlock Singularity. Grants 5 agony resistance, lost when the effect is consumed to prevent lethal damage. Does not stack. Requires the 
Mistlock Singularities mastery.- Account Augmentations ― Upgrades purchased from
Deroir that grant permanent agony resistance to all characters on your account while within the Fractals of the Mists or Mistlock Sanctuary. Requires a Personal Fractal Level of 100 to purchase.
Agony Impedance (1, 2, 3, 4) - Grants 5 agony resistance per upgrade, up to 20.
Mist Attunement (1, 2, 3, 4) - Grants 5 agony resistance per upgrade, up to 20.
Maximizing resistance[edit]
The following should be kept in mind for maximizing Agony Resistance:
- The maximum amount of agony resistance required for Fractals of the Mists at scale 100 is 150.
- A character can have a maximum number of 18 infusion slots. (Note that 20 infusions are needed for a character with 2 equipped weapon sets).
- 1 for each piece of Ascended armor or Legendary armor (Slots: 6, Total: 6)
- 2 weapon slot infusions from either Ascended weapons or Legendary weapons (Slots: 2, Total: 8)
- 1 on both one-handed weapons
or - 2 on a two-handed weapon
- 1 on both one-handed weapons
- 2 in an infused Ascended back item or Legendary back item (Slots: 2, Total: 10)
- 1 in each Ascended accessory or Legendary accessory (Slots: 2, Total: 12)
- 3 in each infused and attuned Ascended ring (Slots: 6, Total: 18)
- Players without the
Agony Channeler mastery cannot attune rings, leaving them with a maximum of 16 slots. - The average amount of agony resistance required per slot, using all 18 slots, is 8.33.
- Additional agony resistance over 150 does not offer any additional protection versus Agony, it does however increase the bonus stats received when using Fractal Potions.
- The suggested agony resistance at scale 100 can vary by ±1 based on a character's max health, but the damage taken will be the same.
Note: Only your currently equipped gear will contribute their agony resistance to your total agony resistance. Weapon swapping will lower your total if the weapon(s) being swapped to have lower or no agony infusions. The same thing will happen when switching to aquatic headgear and aquatic weapons while underwater (ie. for the Aquatic Ruins Fractal).
Cost efficient methods[edit]
The following are possible combinations that equate to 150 agony resistance. Other combinations are possible, but are excluded for brevity.
Cost efficiency is subject to fluctuations in the price of Thermocatalytic Reagents (Trading Post offers vs merchant price), and in some cases without an Artificer, it may be more cost-efficient to purchase the odd-numbered infusions available from INFUZ-5959, or even buy the needed infusions outright from the TP.
Due to weapon swapping altering total agony resistance, weapons should hold the lowest value infusions so that additional infusions will be cheaper to add if multiple weapon sets are used. The recommended infusions to put into weapons have been bolded.
- Efficient
- The most cost efficient method when using 2 or more weapon sets.
- 2
+7 Agony Infusions (14 AR) - 8 +8 Agony Infusions (64 AR)
- 8
+9 Agony Infusions (72 AR)
- 2
- Total: 3200 +1 Agony Infusions and 47
59 
80 
in reagents - Additional weapon cost: +7 Agony Infusion (64 +1 Agony Infusions and 94 24 ) for each slot
- Free Accounts
- For players without access to the mastery system or have yet to train the Agony Channeler mastery. The Agony Channeler mastery is required to purchase Agonized Essence, which is used to create attuned rings.
- Only 16 infusion slots are required for this set up. The infusions used may be deconstructed into lower infusions through INFUZ-5959 after the mastery has been trained.
- 10 +9 Agony Infusions (90 AR)
- 6 +10 Agony Infusions (60 AR)
- 10
- Total: 5632 +1 Agony Infusions and 84 62 in reagents
- Additional weapon cost: +9 Agony Infusion (256 +1 Agony Infusions and 3 81 44 ) for each slot
- Other methods
- Standard
- The simplest method that utilizes all possible infusion slots. It is the most efficient method when using only one weapon set (e.g. using only two 1-handed weapons or only a single 2-handed weapon).
- It is equivalent in cost with the efficient method (above) if adding another 1-handed weapon, otherwise it is slightly more expensive per additional weapon.
- 12 +8 Agony Infusions (96 AR)
- 6 +9 Agony Infusions (54 AR)
- 12
- Total: 3072 +1 Agony Infusions and 45 68 24 in reagents
- Addition weapon cost: +8 Agony Infusion (128 +1 Agony Infusions and 1 89 97 ) for each slot
- Optimal
- Cost efficient set up that allows you to achieve 150 agony resistance and a full set of 18 attribute infusions.
- 6 +7 Agony Infusions (42 AR)
- 12 +9 Agony Infusions (108 AR)
- 6
- Total: 3456 +1 Agony Infusions and 51 42 72 in reagents
- Additional weapon cost: +7 Agony Infusion (64 +1 Agony Infusions and 94 24 ) for each slot
- Total (with full attribute infusions): 10908 +1 Agony Infusions, 154 28 16 in reagents and 300
Integrated Fractal Matrix - Additional weapon cost: +7 attribute infusion (192 +1 Agony Infusions, 2 82 72 and 10 Integrated Fractal Matrix) for each slot
- Frugal
- The following method uses 17 slots by distributing the lowest infusion (a +8 from the standard method) between the remaining infusions. Methods to do it for fewer slots follow the same principle, such as the setup for free accounts above.
- Used by players who do not want to upgrade or craft an infusion slot (most commonly, infusing an ascended back item), saving some materials.
- 3 +8 Agony Infusions (24 AR)
- 14 +9 Agony Infusions (126 AR)
- 3
- Total: 3968 +1 Agony Infusions and 59 10 7 in reagents
- Addition weapon cost: +8 Agony Infusion (128 +1 Agony Infusions and 1 89 97 ) for each slot
- Minimalist
- The absolute minimum agony resistance required is 130, allowing the remaining 20 to be gained by using Anguished Tear of Alba and Rigorous Certainty, which grant 15 and 5 agony resistance respectively. Players will need to take care and avoid going downed, else they will lose 5 AR until they reach the next available Mistlock Singularity. There will be a recurring cost at Scale 92 and above (or Scale 89 and above, if Rigorous Certainty cannot be maintained).
- Disclaimer: The Anguished Tear of Alba is not meant to be a permanent solution.
- 14 +7 Agony Infusion (98 AR)
- 4 +8 Agony Infusion (32 AR)
- Total: 1408 +1 Agony Infusion and 20 79 24 in reagents
- Additional weapon cost: +7 Agony Infusion (64 +1 Agony Infusions and 94 24 ) for each slot
- Alternative Minimalist
- Used by people who do not have access to Mistlock Singularities or do not want to worry about maintaining it. This method totals up to 135 agony resistance allowing the remaining to be attained by using an Anguished Tear of Alba which grants up to 15 agony resistance. Similar to the above there will be a recurring cost if you need more agony resistance when using this method (Scale 92 and above).
- 9 +7 Agony Infusion (63 AR)
- 9 +8 Agony Infusion (72 AR)
- 9
- Total: 1728 +1 Agony Infusions and 25 58 7 in reagents
- Additional Weapon cost: +7 Agony Infusion (64 +1 Agony Infusion and 94 24 ) for each slot
- Fractal God
- A setup for people with tier 4 Agony Impedance and Mist Attunement, which grant a total of 45 agony resistance.
- 3
+5 Agony Infusion (15 AR) - 15 +6 Agony Infusion (90 AR)
- 3
- Total: 528 +1 Agony Infusions and 7 82 41 in reagents
- Additional Weapon cost: +5 Agony Infusion (16 +1 Agony Infusion and 22 40 ) for each slot
- Fractal God (with attribute infusions)
- This setup totals 106 agony resistance because it is not possible to hit 105 using only attribute infusions.
- 10 +5 Agony Infusion (50 AR)
- 8 +7 Agony Infusion (56 AR)
- 10
- Total: 672 +1 Agony Infusions and 9 91 85 in reagents
- Additional Weapon cost: +5 Agony Infusion (16 +1 Agony Infusion and 22 40 ) for each slot
- Total (with full attribute infusions): 2016 +1 Agony Infusions, 23 74 16 in reagents and 130 Integrated Fractal Matrix
- Additional weapon cost: +5 attribute infusion (48 +1 Agony Infusions, 22 44 and 5 Integrated Fractal Matrix) for each slot
- Raider's Loadout
- For the characters that will never touch fractals. Also works as a minimalist Fractal God, using an Anguished Tear of Alba to reach 105 AR.
- 18 +5 attribute infusions (90 AR)
- Total: 864 +1 Agony Infusions, 12 9 60 in reagents and 90 Integrated Fractal Matrix
- Additional weapon cost: +5 attribute infusion (48 +1 Agony Infusions, 57 20 and 5 Integrated Fractal Matrix) for each slot
- All +9 infusions
- While not efficient, this is left here for comparison purposes.
- 18 +9 Agony Infusions (162 AR)
- 18
- Total: 4608 +1 Agony Infusions and 68 65 92 in reagents
- Additional weapon cost: +9 Agony Infusion (256 +1 Agony Infusions and 3 81 44 ) for each slot
- Total (with full attribute infusions): 13824 +1 Agony Infusions, 205 99 92 in reagents and 360 Integrated Fractal Matrix
- Additional weapon cost: +9 attribute infusion (768 +1 Agony Infusions, 2 82 72 and 20 Integrated Fractal Matrix) for each slot
AR calculator[edit]
The following widget will calculate the cheapest combinations to reach specific Agony Resistance totals using the specified parameters.
Notes[edit]
- Due to a bug, the recommended agony resistance values shown in-game can vary by ±1 from the actual amounts needed. This doesn't affect gameplay.
Trivia[edit]
- Prior to the October 23, 2015 update, the highest scale available was scale 50. At this scale, the recommended agony resistance at the time was 70. This was achieved with
+5 Simple Infusions in all 14 offensive, defensive, and utility infusion slots available at the time. While infusion slots from infused items did exist, they generally served no purpose other than increasing a character's agony resistance as they could not be upgrade with anything other than Agony Infusions. - Offensive, defensive and utility infusion slots at the time could only be upgraded with Simple Infusions or primitive attribute infusions, which had an expensive Mystic Forge recipe. These infusions gave +5 to a single attribute and +5 agony resistance. Players who crafted these prior to the July 26, 2016 update were given either a +7 attribute infusion or a +9 attribute infusion, depending on the type of infusion it was. The update also removed the offensive and defensive slots and replaced them with an infusion slot, allowing regular Agony Infusions to be used instead of Simple Infusions. Ascended amulets also had a utility infusion slot which could take a simple infusion. This was removed in the same update and replaced with an Enrichment slot.
- Prior to the July 26, 2016 update, players could achieve 150 AR through a mix of 14 +7 Simple Infusions, 2
+11 Agony Infusions and 3 +10 Agony Infusions. This setup is no longer possible as it requires 19 slots. The July patch replaced the infusion slot on Ascended amulets with an Enrichment slot. The +10 and +11 infusions may be deconstructed into lower infusions through INFUZ-5959's Infusion Deconstruction tab to achieve one of the above setups.
