do some pets have natural resistance?

I was chest running outside Boreal Station in HM when I decided to kill the passing polar bear (lvl 5, I'm 20) for a couple extra norn points. I noticed that my Rodgort's Invocation, which is supposed to do 106 fire damage, was hitting for 53.

Do they have some super fire resistance or something?

EDIT: ran it again in NM and hit RI for 163, so is it just a Hard Mode rule that fire magic has to suck, even against lvl 5 animals?

It's called AL.

I thought in hardmode all those lvl 5 are lvl 20?

Anything that can be made a pet stays at a low level (usually lvl 3 or lvl 5). If you kill them, they do count towards the number of creatures vanquished (worth 5gp + 5xp, lol!)- but they generally won't count for Norn/allegiance titles, since they're not level 15 or above.

I did some testing. I went to kill sand lizards outside of hero's audience.
In NM i did 59 dmg (max sword, +15%^50, 14 sword) and toke 0 damage.
In HM i did 36 dmg (max sword, +15%^50, 14 sword) and toke 0 damage.
I think they receive an armor bonus but that disappears when you rezone if captured (didn't test this ;D).

This is a great chest run area in HM. I did get 2 Forget Me not inscriptions there. I never tried to kill the bear ad I could not target it. I am not a ranger.
That said I did some testing killing the wurms when I was going for my first survivor. The wurms deal FIRE damage. So maybe the bear has fire armor.

I am not sure.

No resistance, according to the wiki. Just AL and HM.

You chest run in HM? Are you going for max unlucky title, because dayam thats alot of broken lockpicks.

Confirmed this, animals do not count toward Rep points.



I like getting more golds, and I'm looking for Lucky and Unlucky together.