How useful is rChaos?

[luneya]

I just found a Cloak of Aman with rChaos. Right now I'm using a different Cloak of Aman for rPois, which is obviously more important, but is it worth saving the new one for when I find a different source of poison resistance?

[krazyhades]

I like having rChaos mostly because the side-effect of chaos damage is the Hallucination status effect, which can be crippling and takes a long time to wear off.

[Elrond]

Not to mention there are some end game baddies that breath chaos for 500 HP. e.g., Jabberwock

[Thraalbee]

And mushroom of emergency becomes very useful since the hallucinations won't happen IIRC. 200 hp heal, rFire, rCold

[Derakon]

It's not that important, honestly. Yes, there are nasty creatures with chaos breath, but there's a grand total of 11 such monsters in the game, of which the most notables are Great Wyrm of Chaos/Balance, Pit Fiend, Jabberwock, and Chaos Hound. And chaos breath is the only source of chaos damage in the game -- there's no "hit to cause chaos" or chaos attack spells that monsters can use.

[brbrbr]

rPoison is much more important, so keep the current cloak.
Chaos attacks are rare, as guys mentioned, so it's not worth carrying as a swap either.
I would drop it at home in case you find rPoison from something else.

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by Derakon

It's not that important, honestly. Yes, there are nasty creatures with chaos breath, but there's a grand total of 11 such monsters in the game, of which the most notables are Great Wyrm of Chaos/Balance, Pit Fiend, Jabberwock, and Chaos Hound. And chaos breath is the only source of chaos damage in the game -- there's no "hit to cause chaos" or chaos attack spells that monsters can use.

There is melee that causes hallucination though. Not common, but annoying when it happens.

Most high elements are not important for damage reduction, you should consider them by their side-effects. For that reason nexus goes above nether, chaos above shard, and so on.

If you can get them without sacrificing other things, then fine (usually the best combo otherwise is also best by resists), but you should not concentrate on getting every resist into game. Far more important are speed, HP and capability to choose your fights and where you fight.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

There is melee that causes hallucination though. Not common, but annoying when it happens.

Is that covered under chaos resistance? I don't think so. It used to be, back when chaos resistance also protected against confusion and shards resistance against being cut by any source and sound resistance against being stunned...but I don't think it works that way now.

[Thraalbee]

I would expect it to help against that too. It certainly prevents the hallucinations from mushroom of emergency.

[wobbly]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

Most high elements are not important for damage reduction, you should consider them by their side-effects. For that reason nexus goes above nether, chaos above shard, and so on.

This depends, nether is the 1st dangerous high element to appear & a winged horror can 1 shot a lot of mages with nether breath.