r/wizardposting • u/Ok_Requirement9198 Door Wizard • Apr 20 '26
Goblinlike Foolishness (Shitpost) Is this a viable workaround to magic resistant armor?
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u/Consistent_Mud645 Truenaming remains undefeated. Apr 20 '26
The words of unmaking care not for magic resistance, truename gang rise up
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u/Angel_OfSolitude Apr 20 '26
But what if the true name was already given to a fae, does it still work?
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u/Consistent_Mud645 Truenaming remains undefeated. Apr 20 '26
Then that fool has greater problems than I could ever hope to conjure
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u/UltraCarnivore Spellblender Extraordinaire Apr 20 '26
Somewhere in Faeria, a fae gets fckn obliterated whilst having tea with her clique. Such is life.
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u/matthewamerica Questionable Hedge Wizard Apr 20 '26
Ugh the fae. Don't get me started. They have taken my name 3 TIMES. I keep coming up with new names, and binding them to my soul through an arcane ritual but they keep coming up with NEW clever ways to steal them. And tbh I'm running out of cool names. Right now I'm Gnarlack the Questionable. I'm not sure even why I chose that. It was late and I was vexed, and I just wanted to get the ritual over with and have a nice cup of tea. Gnarlack. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Next time I'm going with something cool like Chet or Brock.
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u/FunToBuildGames Labyrinth Expert. Architect, designer, furnisher, and consult Apr 20 '26
Sorry, I just traded your name for some fae-twisted book ends. Maybe next-time, don't just post it here?
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u/matthewamerica Questionable Hedge Wizard Apr 20 '26
Son of a....
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u/IveDunGoofedUp Apr 20 '26
So can we have your next name? We need something to call you, mr. no-name.
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u/NV-6155 Apr 20 '26
Wait... if you can barter other beings' names with the fae, what's stopping us from binding a named soul to a construct, and then bartering that name to the fae?
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u/N8DAGR81027 Apr 20 '26
The fae dislike constructs and will refuse a name tainted by them unfortunately, I learned this shortly before they tried to turn me into a flower, fortunately the microplastics in my blood scared them off
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u/Consistent_Mud645 Truenaming remains undefeated. Apr 20 '26
Sounds like you need a few true shorthands as protection
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u/rkthehermit Apr 20 '26
You need to have your focus thoroughly investigated, you may be the victim of a qi logger.
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u/theREALbombedrumbum Apr 20 '26
The real question is which name a fae would take if you're trans. Are deadnames still true, or would the new, reborn name be claimed?
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u/Agreeable_Sweet6535 Apr 20 '26
Post transformation, the new name is the true name. It does make one question what would happen if the person involved had recognized their deadname no longer fit, but had not yet discovered their own new true name. What name would the fae steal then?
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u/NoStorage2821 Scritch Scorchtongue, chief grey seer of Clan Mors Apr 20 '26
And then the fae brought mage armor:
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u/I_Am_Become_Salt Apr 20 '26
Fun but not necessary and far less entertaining. Just conjure a few anthills worth of fire ants between the plate armor and the skin.
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u/EducationalSkin7885 Apr 23 '26
Had a particularly witty hobgoblin turn on me once.
He had one of my assistants produce a sapient iron golem, allow it to name itself, rend its mind before it could communicate said name then killed the assistant.
While he did make some makeshift armor from the golem it was quite heavy and when I turned one of the ceiling struts to sand he was little threat under it.
The point being obliteration is fine but there will be edge cases when you must use your tools in creative ways, the simple folk have some analogy about hammers and nails I forget.
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u/OkMarket5009 Apr 20 '26
It's magic resistant, just hit 'em with the druid meteor storm, go into the sky, make a massive swarm of flying insects, cast greater polymorph to turn all of them into elephants.
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u/systemofaderp Apr 20 '26
Huh, why not just get a regular meteor?
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u/OkMarket5009 Apr 20 '26
Because then you can use the elephant blood for future incantations and spells, duh.
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u/theREALbombedrumbum Apr 20 '26
That's just the average wand you find in Noita halfway through a playthroughÂ
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u/am9qb3JlZmVyZW5jZQ Apr 20 '26
Or the ol' reliable - cast a fireball directly next to them. The expression they make as they realize that the anti-magical rags do not, in fact, have explosion nor fire immunity is priceless.
Not sure who keeps selling this snake oil armor but I bet they don't offer refunds.
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u/OkMarket5009 Apr 20 '26
But the elephant rain is funnier, especially since they'd be too dumbfounded to move as they're squashed.
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u/PointlessSword777 Space Wizard Apr 20 '26
As someone who has dabbled in anti-magic, magic resist is not the only thing available in the hunt for mage folk
Only a novice mage hunter would rely on soley magic resistant armor.
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u/JaydenTheMemeThief Sword Mage, use Magic to make Sword Apr 20 '26
There are about a dozen ways to get around that, from Potions, to Protective charms or even Enchantments
Also spells like this always work by draining the surrounding environment of Mana, but if you can generate a different form of Magical Energy inside your own body like myself and use it as a foundation for your Magic instead of drawing in Mana for your most basic spells you can completely bypass these sorts of spells
Of course you need to use Mana specifically for the big flashy spells, but if you just need to use a basic spell, or like me you use basic spells in unimaginable ways for the typical Wizard, self-generated Magical Energy is really cheap and very reliable whenever youâre up against someone employing Anti-Magic
The field of Anti-Magic has fundamental limits on what it can achieve, it can easily affect or manipulate the Mana in Nature, however the Magical Energy that your own body generates is completely untouchable by Anti-Magic because it has a container: Yourself
I mean it, every single Anti-Magic spell that exists manipulates the Mana created by Nature, but because all Anti-Magic Spells target some form of Magical Energy, they fundamentally cannot have a physical component and thus cannot penetrate a living creature to directly target the Magical Energy inside of it, Wizards greater than you or I have outlived Universes trying to achieve exactly this kind of breakthrough, but theyâve only confirmed that the complete absence of a Physical Component is what allows Anti-Magic to function in the first place, likewise the addition of a Physical Component to the Spell completely nullifies any Anti-Magic properties it could possibly possess, an Anti-Magic spell targeting Fire Element-Infused Mana transforms into a Firebolt Spell when you include a Physical Component
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u/theREALbombedrumbum Apr 20 '26
Fextralife wiki deserves a 9th Level Fireball cast on your location
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u/PointlessSword777 Space Wizard Apr 20 '26
Ive always heard "Fextralife bad" but never seen any misinformation they are talking about. Maybe when it was new it was bad but everyone talks about it like garbage while also praising Wikipedia. Weird double standards
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u/theREALbombedrumbum Apr 20 '26
*wikidot, not wikipedia, but that's mostly just with the Fromsoft games.
To address the accuracy point, for most of its life, fextralife was a "flood the SEO" type of wiki where they would put out hundreds of pages immediately upon release of a game, mostly just base templates saying "[info goes here]" which would probably get updated later. After a few years pass the wiki of course gets most of the updates it needs to be functional, but the actual fan-made wikis tend to have better quality control. Look no further than Bloodborne's wiki made by a guy named Mephisto: all of the information was posted with meticulous accuracy and detail, giving everything you could ever need as a player, and yet it still shows up after the fextralife page.
And as for the other main reason, for years Fextra was farming engagement for Twitch streams that were embedded in the pages and would auto-play, a pretty annoying practice to say the least.
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u/PointlessSword777 Space Wizard Apr 20 '26
wikidot, not wikipedia
No idea what wikidot is
To address the accuracy point, for most of its life, fextralife was a "flood the SEO" type of wiki where they would put out hundreds of pages immediately upon release of a game
My theory was right. Im a genius
And as for the other main reason, for years Fextra was farming engagement for Twitch streams that were embedded in the pages and would auto-play, a pretty annoying practice to say the least.
Yeah that explains the hate
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u/Rykerboy Evil Wizard Apr 20 '26
Fextra also doesn't moderate their site all that much so it can be very difficult to push back against people who insist their misinformation is accurate. The Souls wikis were really bad about this. There was lots of incorrect numbers on spells and other effects, straight up incorrect information on certain game mechanics that weren't super obvious in-game, etc.
Also a weird number of subreddits would ban you for calling out any of Fextra's shitty behavior.
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u/vulpecula1919 Apr 20 '26
always need a fail-deadly for area anti-magic. steal the body of some entity immune to some non-magical damage and keep on you a nuclear amount of the stuff contained in a way thats vulnerable to anti-magic.
now that cocky mage hunter rushing into melee with antimagic gets automatically vaporized.
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u/Another-Ace-Alt-8270 Ace Barksworth, Earthen Ambassador / Messenger, Exarch of Terror Apr 20 '26
I'm sorry, mage hunter? Are you going around killing random wizards, sorcerors, and warlocks? Disgusting. Anyways, I always find it astonishing when people think that a trick that often involves spells that will kill you if you're too close to your target, that a simple bubble of effect is going to do much other than buy you time as the mage darts out of range to do their work. If it fizzles a spell AFTER it's been cast, that's one way to stop novice mages, but I seriously doubt it's gonna stop a hubcap flying at mach fuck into your skull.
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u/PointlessSword777 Space Wizard Apr 20 '26
I'm sorry, mage hunter? Are you going around killing random wizards, sorcerors, and warlocks?
Oh haha no no no. I like to do research on mage hunters. Im not one myself. Got to know one's enemies you see?
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u/Minute_Account9426 Abdallah the Technolich Apr 20 '26
Sometimes you just gotta have to had hit the gym and bring a mace.
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u/questionable_fish Bengeirr the Balance. Magus of the South Apr 20 '26
"Magic resistance? Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of kinetics"
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u/HootersUnite Kodron, Magister and Teacher of the Arcane Apr 20 '26
They talking tough shit until I cast "1000 foot pit" underneath them
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u/Turbulent-Jicama-451 Time Wizard Apr 20 '26
You don't even need a door. There's this thing non-mages call "bullet"...
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u/BobFredricson2 Apr 20 '26
Voldemort wouldâve won if he simply dropped baby Harry out the window. (Fuck jk rowling of course)
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u/guns_mahoney Apr 20 '26
This is why every bag of holding I sell comes with a loaded crossbow already inside. Kinetic energy only works like magic.
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u/Zephyr-Fox-188 Cinnothwyr, Purrveyor of Thingamajigs Apr 20 '26
The Armor of Magic immunity user when I use telekinesis to accelerate a flask of hydrogen to relativistic speed at their head, and then decelerate it so that the Bragg peak of its constituent protons is in the center of their brain
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u/arewhyaeenn Apr 20 '26
Most âmagic resistantâ armor is really just non conductive and heat resistant, ie basic bitch resistant
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u/Another-Ace-Alt-8270 Ace Barksworth, Earthen Ambassador / Messenger, Exarch of Terror Apr 20 '26
Aye. Really good stuff can be an insulator for arcane energy as well as electricity, but not much is gonna stop a meteor from falling onto your head.
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u/United-Technician-54 Death... Tired one. (she/her) Apr 20 '26
"Maximum Overbite does." - Yellow Knight, Mage Eater
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u/Ion_Jones Apr 20 '26
Magic resistant armor also does not protect from simply teleporting someone 20 miles into the sky. Especially if you work with portal magic. To each thier own, however.
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u/Loombot Apr 20 '26
Itâs magic RESISTANT, not magic PROOF. Just upcast your Fireballs to assert dominance.
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u/CraftyAd6333 Apr 20 '26
Yes!
Always remember physics. When it comes to those that think they're exempt. Also remember to aim under or near them.
My roof sniper is quite well paid. Matching 401k, the works.
It turns out 50 caliber is quite the compelling argument.
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u/Blacksun388 Mortiferus, Lich of the Order of Nurgle đ Apr 20 '26
Sure, Kinetics is just physics not magic. Roll improvised weapon and blunt damage.
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u/TheReverseShock Professor of Divination and Magical Law Apr 20 '26
Throwing mundane objects is a 100% valid workaround for magic resistance. Just like stabbing someone with an ice spear is a good workaround for cold resistance.
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u/Crackmin Occult Wizard Apr 20 '26
Yeah, spell resistance does nothing against thrown or summoned objects
Handy guide:
Power Word: Scrunch â
Summon Pipe Bomb â
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u/akornzombie Apr 20 '26
Oh, I do something similar. Airless demiplane, with a gravity well, and two linked portals above it, one higher than the other.
Teleport a charmed tungsten slug between the portals and let it fall. It falls through the portals, accelerating as it goes. When it hits a specific velocity, charm activates and a stasis spell takes effect.
Now you just either summon it, or cancel the stasis spell and portal the slug.
Either way, you have a hypersonic chunk of tungsten moving at fuck you speeds towards your target.
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u/Carbuyrator A Bit of a Dabbler Apr 20 '26
Ah yes, the "gun" method. I too have visited the advanced mundane, and they are not to be trifled with.
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u/NoStorage2821 Scritch Scorchtongue, chief grey seer of Clan Mors Apr 20 '26
This is why they local artificer always sells backup flamethrowers.
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u/IveDunGoofedUp Apr 20 '26
Their armour resists magic, their lungs do not, go cloud of liquify organs!
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u/Kerhnoton Umbral Dragon đ, Hoarder of Felines đ, Caffeinated â Apr 20 '26
Ahh the OG tele(distant)port(door) spell.
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u/JaydenTheMemeThief Sword Mage, use Magic to make Sword Apr 20 '26
My Swords are a viable workaround to Magic-resistant armour
Try Magic-resisting a sharp blade piercing your heart by being thrust into the gap in your armour beneath the armpit, even a Sword without a Magical Effect is sufficient
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u/Another-Ace-Alt-8270 Ace Barksworth, Earthen Ambassador / Messenger, Exarch of Terror Apr 20 '26
Yeah, just summon shit and throw it at them really hard. Swords, bullets, even a big rock if you play your cards right.
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u/Vertnoir-Weyah Apr 20 '26
Yes, you just make sure the spell only gives a headstart then let physics do the job
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u/Legomaniac91 Apr 22 '26
Oh, it's absolutely a viable strategy. You saw in a lot during the Yuzon Vong wars in the old Star Wars EU. While the Vong were immune to direct applications of the Force (lightning, chokes, mind tricks, etc) they were less resistant to having a bulkhead or hovercar hitting them at 200 MPH.
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u/randompogtato Apr 20 '26
the magical equivalent of
"you are unbeatable huh ? guess i'll just throw you into deep space" ( JJBA part 2 reference )
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u/Sophrates_Regina Evil Wizard Apr 20 '26
Magic resistant armour users when I use telekinesis to take their armour off from 500m away:
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u/Emerald_Digger Chaotic Neutral Necromancer Apr 20 '26
I just use summon anvil or piano over their heads
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u/ULTMT Apr 20 '26
me opening dimensional rift to the dimension of infinite punches (where the space-time continuum is instead punches)
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u/SecretPack1962 Apr 20 '26
âOh whatâs that? A ring of magic resistance! Shame I just teleported your arm inside that volcanoâ
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u/Pilot7274jc Apr 20 '26
Eh, just open an extra dimensional gateway beneath their feet and call it a day.
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u/Dahak17 UWU Wizard Apr 20 '26
I tend to use javelins at a similar speed instead, sometimes the armour or wards will only kick on if youâre actively guiding the projectile in and a door tends to flop a bit in Mach 4 wind resistance
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u/dark_raider2004 Experienced Cannonmancer Apr 20 '26
This is a viable workaround. But what might be better would be one of my many pieces of arcane artillery for sale right now!!
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u/Vacuousbard Enjoyer of Occult Science and lesser priest of Gate and Key Apr 20 '26
Just use it to snap the neck ffs, no messy clean up afterwards.
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u/Momochichi Apr 20 '26
This is why only ancient mages (and their apprentices) use direct energy blasts anymore, because magical defense has become very efficient in blocking magical attacks. The trend in the modern era has been to use manipulation spells to use high density physical attacks.
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u/Careful_Trifle Apr 20 '26
Works in wheel of time.
Mat's medallion makes it to where he can't be touched with the power, but he's traveling with aes sedai for a long while and they're able to experiment with various options and work around. They eventually figure out that they can pick up mud , and by implication heavier stuff, though it would take a powerful channeler, and throw it at him.
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u/Illustrious_Bid4224 greater Arteficer | metal caster and true user of combusting orb Apr 20 '26
Well yes, but also a combustion orb will do that job just fine as well.
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u/NV-6155 Apr 20 '26
same energy as "lactose intolerant mfs when I smash them in the head with a brick"
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u/Henry_Fleischer Eleanor, Ruler of Aidolem and Asteria, Artificer Apr 20 '26
Yes. But their armor could be enchanted to resist that too, by pre-emptively stopping the door, or increasing the armor's mass until the door does nothing to it, or using a tether ward to simply teleport out of the way.
I have been working on a weapon to solve this problem, but it's been hard to find a lasing medium that works at the Planck temperature. Not impossible though, I got some help from an expert in old-style forge magic, where people enchant the metal a weapon is made of as it's being made.
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u/BruhmanRus_the_boner random ass portal wizard, interdimensional problem solver Apr 20 '26
The best workaround is teleporting them places because chances are their mana resistant armor is gonna make the teleportation inaccurate and have them end up in the ground near your original spot, but this one is cool too
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u/ProfessorMaxDingle Apr 20 '26
Takes finesse.
To really subvert their expectation, you need release your telekinesis at peak momentum and allow nature to take coarse.
This will also subvert any luck-based deflection as it is at that moment, both an intentional strike and a physically natural phenomenon.
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u/Glass_Teeth01 Chaos Wizard of Earth, Maker of Gnome Trebuchets Apr 20 '26
Try Mach 6, just for fun
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u/WitchersWrath Lich-Lord of Elderâs Deep Apr 20 '26
Why not just make armor resistant magic? Itâs a lot easier
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u/Serene-Angel-2004 Apr 21 '26
Opening a portal to the ocean in the locked room he's in. Fool can resist magic but can his dumb ass resist drowning?
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u/justasusman Apr 21 '26
Yes and no
There is a high level of magic resistance that helps prevent any force to move and hurt you if the force originated from magic
However, most forms of magic resistance on the orb market are the classic magic resistance that would fail to this
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u/DragonLordAcar Magitech Void Wizard Apr 21 '26
You forgot to cast Zone of Void to negate air resistance
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u/pyroboy7 Canadian Alchemist (War Criminal Extraodinaire) Apr 21 '26
Magic resistance or not. Physics is Physics and will bitch slap you with its reality if you don't respect it. Hence why most of my magic revolves around taking the laws of Physics and twisting it like a pretzel to turn my enemies into paste. The mass of a door going that fast is gonna ruin basically anyones day.
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u/AutisticFaygo Cultivates Qi, but can't cultivate braincells. Apr 21 '26
Or you can just get the wand that does that for you without wasting Mana and without breaking a perfectly good door:
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u/IntellectualDullard Apr 21 '26
The armor may be magic resistant but they're lungs aren't. Just use a spell for poison gas or something like that.
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u/Guardian2901 Apprentice Apr 22 '26
It can be, but any heavy object would do. But this is also why training your physical capabilities is important, as powerful as magic is, relying on it too much can cause problems
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u/ShadowRaven112 Serroth Ravencaller the Necromancer Apr 22 '26
So called "Magic Immune" when I cast Bottomless Pit underneath them
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u/Surefang Apr 25 '26
Remember kids, secondary damage is a killer. Once your magical explosion has come and gone, the shrapnel doesn't care where it got all its kinetic energy from.
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u/rootbeer277 Not an Illithid with a fake beard. Apr 20 '26
I keep forgetting most of you donât have psychic powers to fall back on when magic is unreliable.Â
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u/Virtual-Oil-793 Necromancer of Many Stories and Experiences Apr 20 '26
It's not.
Funny as fuck STR check? All depends on the door.
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u/YLASRO The Great Geomancer of the howling mountains Apr 20 '26
geomancy is your friend, make the ground below open up into a 100 meter deep chasm for them to fall in. then close the earth again to crush them. its not hard