Fortitude or stone for merc armor?

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yeah i know everyone says treachery is better, but i got him obedience polearm, and i’m using my treachery armor on my assassin right now.

fortitude looks good, with a flat 200% increase to defense, but stone does 250-290% enhanced defense. how do the other bonuses stack up?

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Stone armor has great defense, a small all resist bonus and gives you a huge hit recovery bonus. A good merc armor for relatively cheap.

Fortitude armor has good defense, a decent all resist boost and a juicy 300% enhanced DAMAGE mod which is multiplicative, and even more defense from the chilling armor. Plus you get a 20% average damage boost from critical strike.

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Fortitude all the way, the bonus damage will make a huge difference on how your mercenary is leeching life

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so enhanced damage on armor applies to the merc’s weapon damage? i did not know this…

so fortitude would increase my merc’s damage, which is already insane with the obedience polearm?

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Yep. And as I said, it’s multiplicative.

So if for example you have a weapon that does 100 base damage with 50% ED on the weapon (150 damage), then add Fortitude armor, that 100 base damage would do 600 damage.

Frostburn Gauntlets have a 5% enhanced damage mod as well, it’s also multiplicative.

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then when enhanced damage is on armor like that, does it apply to spells for my sorc, or just melee characters?

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It applies to physical damage melee/ranged attacks/skills only. It won’t do anything for casters.