Can we all agree that armour needs this buff to even the field.

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toyotatundra wrote:

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AkuTenshiiZero wrote:

Imagine a passive that causes all damage taken to be drained from your health over time, rather than instantly?

You cant do this in a game that allows logouts. This would make every character in the game completely immortal.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

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Ire_of_Desire wrote:

Or maybe that's armour working by design? Not all defenses should work the same way and be used for the same thing. Maybe AR should work like arctic armour used to work - good for multiple smaller hits but bad for single big ones. Don't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees.

Why would anyone choose a defence that only works for a specific scenario? Nor is this judging a fish by its ability to climb trees. There are 3 defence stats in PoE they are even listed as defences, evasion / armour / ES. All 3 of them are supposed to keep you alive, if they fail at that then they aren't fit for their purpose its not like your trying to do damage with your armour.

ES wins at the moment because a big buffer covers everything it also has a synergy problem (evade/armour builds have to take life + defence nodes, ES nodes are life + defence nodes) so it provides the best universal defence because it works against everything, and it costs fewer points while doing that.

using your example though if armour worked like the old arctic armour and reduced elemental damage recieved by a small amount too that is exactly the kind of buff it requires, though as others have mentioned i'd actually prefer small %'s of life on the defence nodes.