Is damage reduction while fortified for barbarians broken? Sorry if this has been asked already but I heard a rumor this wasn’t working properly? I get one shotted in tier 91 NM dungeon and not entirely sure why but I have a lot of points in this stat so I’m starting to think this might be why… Any help is appreciated or general advice to improve survivability. I have max resists (70%), 6744 armor and 12k health. Paragon is Warbringer, Flawless Technique, Carnage and Decimator.
Your armor is too low and you might not have enough Aspect of Disobedience stacks when you got one shot.
Thanks! Is armor or damage reduction more important would you say? I get 39% damage reduction from Iron Skin and Iron Warrior aspect and 48% damage reduction from challenging shout and I’ve got 12% DR from elites, 25% DR from close and while fortified and I’m always fortified. I don’t know if this is high however for DR? If both my iron skin and challenging shout are up I should be getting over 100% DR…
DR while fortified sucks for most builds other than Earth Druid. The efficiency of Earth Druid cumulating fortify is at another level thanks to the passive skill safeguard.
Simply speaking, you need more armer, close/distance DR.
Awesome, thanks peeps!
Those are both important especially when you fight lv100+ monsters.
Damage reduction is multiplicative, you cannot get 100% DR.
Edit: I think a lot of people don’t realize that there is huge difference between 60% physical damage reduction and 80% physical damage reduction from armor.
Some people may think that they take 20% more damage because 80% - 60% = 20%, but that is incorrect. Say a monster does 1000 physical damage, with 60% DR you would take 400 damage and 80% DR 200 damage . With 60% DR you actually take twice the damage you would take with 80% DR.
You need to cap armor damage reduction which is 9240 for 100 level mobs and 13300ish for tier 100 dungeons.
Armor damage reduction is the most important damage reduction there is when it comes to doing high level content.
There may be an issue where did you hear this rumor?
I have not played my barb in a few weeks, but I went from being unkillable, to getting one shot in dungeons I was wrecking when I left it. I just retweaked to be more defensive…but still it felt like something had changed and yes I do use fortify quite a bit.
get your armor to around 9500. still use disobedience because the cap for lvl154 mobs is like 13500 roughly. that will help you alot
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You’re going to need even more armor if you plan to do AoZ content next week, 15k+.
i think if he is struggling in t91 nmd getting one shot. he should concentrate on that content first rather than looking towards aoz which is even harder
Lack of armor is what gets most ppl in trouble
Is this your first day playing a video game? Why would you ever think that it is possible to gain 100% DR? I can’t take anything you say seriously.
I got my armor up to 9,900 and world of a difference, thanks for help 
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Well his issue is the normal problem of most newbie players, is that hard for you to find new people in a game? The question is legit and like the 99% of people he is probably not good at numbers as you are at reading a simple question. I suggest you to go and touch some grass.
Any how, for the OP, don’t forget fortify reduction takes place only under the condition that the fortify value is greater or equal to your current life, where its base reduction valie is 10%, so if you dont have a reliable source of generating it is just a waste of item affixes and paragon points.
Devs should make a real patch notes showing the inverse formula used for DR, dodge and those affixes following non linear rules. Diminishing returns hit hard at times and there is where people get lost.