Talk:Black Scripture/@comment-60.48.217.20-20151110144140/@comment-50.69.166.211-20160301035043

Shaltear was suprised because Ainz was using a spell that should be restricted to faith-based caster classes, but the spell was still effective on him because it deals negative type damage. Just because his gear made him immune to holy damage doesn't mean it would make him immune to fait-based magics. It's elemental resistance, not all arcane/all divine resistance, so having gear that resists divine element should reduce healing effectivness, but this wasn't something Yggdrasil players would consider because of the standard game system of allowing friendly support but no friendly fire.

As for if the gear is optimal or not, well it might be the best they can get, but that's doesn't mean optimal. Think of it like this: the BS members get their pick of the best magic items left behind by their gods. It's better equipment than anything that the New World enchanters can make, so in that sense it's optimal for what they can get, but at the same time it's not made specifically for them. Say the BS equipment is all legendary, then it would all have about the same amount of data/mana in the enchantment, but some of those enchantments may not benefit the current user (eg. bonuses to high level warrior skills not known to the BS). So, even if they pick the optimal gear for each member out of this pile of random legendaries there will inevitably be some wasted potential. Compared to the Pleiades their gear is sub-par because their maid uniforms are all tailored, literally and figuratively, to each one. No wasted enchantment space at all. When you take that into account the Pleiades would have at least somewhat better equipment overall, except for maybe ZZ, who might have a divine tier item.