Agony Resistance
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Agony Resistance is the attribute that reduces the damage taken from 
Agony, an effect exclusively found in the Fractals of the Mists which reduces healing and causes a large amount of damage to players without a sufficient amount of agony resistance.
Acquisition[edit]
Infusions[edit]
- Primary article: Infusion
- See also: Agony Infusion
The primary way to acquire agony resistance is to add Infusions to infusion slots, mostly found on ascended or legendary equipment. Note that ascended amulets have an enrichment slot instead of an infusion slot, and therefore cannot be upgraded with infusions.
+1 Agony Infusions are always obtained as a reward upon each completion of a fractal difficulty scale. These can then be upgraded into +N Agony Infusions by trading with INFUZ-5959, or crafted through Artificing. INFUZ-5959 also sells Fine, Masterwork, and Rare infusions which provide small additional attribute boosts.
Other sources[edit]
- Anguished Tear of Alba - Grants 10 Agony Resistance. Grants an additional 5 Agony Resistance with Fractal Attunement Mastery.
- Rigorous Certainty - an effect provided by interacting with a Mistlock Singularity. Grants 5 Agony Resistance. Requires Mistlock Singularity mastery.
- Account Augmentations - Grants permanent Agony Resistance to all characters on your account while within the Fractals of the Mists or Mistlock Sanctuary.
- Agony Impedance (1, 2, 3, 4) - Grants 5 to 20 Agony Resistance.
- Mist Attunement (1, 2, 3, 4) - Grants 5 to 25 Agony Resistance.
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.
Cost efficient methods[edit]
The following are possible combinations that equate to 150 agony resistance. Other combinations are possible, but are excluded for brevity.
Note: Only your currently equipped items will have their agony resistance count towards the total. In other words, weapon swapping may cause you to lose some resistance if the weapon being swapped to do not have agony resistance in them. The same thing will happen when switching to aquatic headgear and aquatic weapons while underwater (e.g. the Aquatic Ruins Fractal). 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.
External links[edit]
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 Infusion 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 to achieve one of the above setups.
