Items with Spell Resistance

[jclay65]

Items with spell resistance. How effective are they? Let's say you have a item with SR 30, how is the SR calculated and what effect does CL or DC have?

Thanks for your help.

[Steve]

Many spells check against Spell Resistance, and thus will fail or can fail against it.

Here is the calculation:

Caster: 1d20 + Caster Level + Feats + Bonus for Assay Resistance
Defender: Spell Resistance amount + penalties to spell resistance

So, with SR 30 item, the Caster would need to be CL 30 (without Feats or casting Assay) in order to be 100% effective against the SR 30 of your item. A Caster would have to be at least CL 11 (without Feats or Assay) in order to have ANY chance of overcoming the SR 30.

[chad878262]

In practice SR 30 items are pretty nice. Even most mobs in high CR areas will fail the check sometimes. It's better if a decent item also has SR, but SR itself isn't a bad thing to have. The highest SR items I've ever found are 28...

[Steve]

An NPC merchant sells a SR 32 cloak...and AMAZING piece of gear for all levels, especially low levels, where so many mob spells will be repelled (a low HP build's dream item, really).

[Calodan]

In practice SR 30 items are pretty nice. Even most mobs in high CR areas will fail the check sometimes. It's better if a decent item also has SR, but SR itself isn't a bad thing to have. The highest SR items I've ever found are 28...

Not true! You sold me a 30SR Heavy Shield man!

[chad878262]

ha! forgot about that! guess I should say an SR item I could use.

[V'rass]

32 SR cloak... best thing i ever bought. Im told 32 is the highest you can get on an item, can only get more using spells.