new Armour formula doesnt change a thing - it is still something you leave others to use
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Yes defence bad
Not worth invest unless become immortal only damage good cave man club good smash Need more brains, exile?
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" Not true. Prefixes are for flat life and increased life, there is no room for armour. If you want amour, you'll lost a lot life, it doesn't worth it at all. Last edited by smtad#6581 on Oct 10, 2021, 2:36:11 PM
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" wrong as soon as you hit a good amount of life 8% increased life isnt as valueable as armor or eva balance is the key for a good build ofc for a long time the 8% life will be better,but as soon as you really start to min max and/or craft most of your gear it can change same can be said for the +1 to max curse if you dont have a good way or a good curse to make use off the +1 max curse isnt as valueable |
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" lol wut? ofc defences are important. but defences that WORK, defences that are relevant, defences that excel when needed the most just like Energy Shield that just got MASSIVE buffs and i bet 3.16 meta for 'invested' characters is going to be 'INT stacking CI whatever': CI build + Grace + spell reduction + Ghost Shroud + no ailment problems why would anyone play anything else? you get insane pool, you get insane regen and you can stack the two inferior options via auras if you want. but you dont need to - INT ES stacker can live with 0AR/EV, try to make 'AR build' going without a sufficient pool cushion. at some point your cusion is so huge you no longer need AR not all 'primary defences' were created equal and ES by the sheer virtue of being a 'pool' (aka life but bigger numbers) is the best of the lot and since stacking INT also provides damage.. " Transcedence build, in 3.16 nuked from orbit not to mention that with Jugg AND Brass dome and picking AR in several places + gear you still barely get over 40k sacrificing A LOT in the process (like damage or ability to survive phys degens) |
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so the takeaway here is to build a character that one-shots everything on the screen so they cant kill you? in other words, offence is the best defence. Got it!!
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I don't think we can sit here with formulas without feeling it out while playing.
Armor builds will generally have access to Fortify, End charges, gear with phys taken as element. These things all make armor better. It's never been about stacking 40k... you get like 10-20k which honestly isn't hard. Builds in the Maruader Duelist area get 150-200% armour naturally going through Life/Arm/Eva nodes as well as Soul of Steel. Granite with increased Armor mod will be great to offset the nerf to 1500. |
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" A lot of mana builds can get some pretty chunky armour via stubborn students. My current one sits at 35k which means 700es on block. Ofc with reservation changes for life I will need to do some major tweaks for 3.16. Armour paired with block will be up there as the most powerful defensive layer in POE. |
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" Did you mean Block is going to be good. and armor will still be useless 99.5% of the time? not a 100% of the time like before. it is a buff. |
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" Armour makes block godly. Even if you don't want to go block Armour stacking interacting with VMS is extremely strong. |
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" What relation does armor and block even have? Shaper slam you didnt evaded or blocked will still gib you. Armor does work against small hits you dont care about and doesnt work against big hits you do care about. |
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