Currently the stat reads that my damage reduction is 100%. Is there a soft cap or an effective cap of some kind? Anyone that can explain this like I’m five? I’m currently running Aspect of Disobedience on my helm and if the armor buff isn’t doing anything I’d like to switch it off.
Thanks in advance.
Armor’s damage reduction scales linearly with your Armor. This damage reduction cannot exceed 85%, meaning that your Armor has an effective cap, but the amount of Armor you need to gain 1% damage reduction keeps increasing as you (and your enemies) level up.
Little correction to bring in-line with the rest of your post. Dmg reduction does not scale linearly - the 1st 1% is much more beneficial than the 85th%. Dmg reduction thus scales on a reducing basis i.e a curve.
I guess it’s the 85% thing that is throwing me for a loop, since my stat sheet says 100%.
Can you source this information? I would love to know more about this games caps, and break points.
I’ve seen Alkaizer with legit 100% dmg reduction with around 11K armors iirc on his barb, right before he got killed because of a dc.
Maybe I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure of what I’ve seen.
I’m currently at 7988 at level 66. Definitely says 100%. If a higher value doesn’t do anything for me than Disobedience is worthless until I level up enough for the diminishing returns to fully kick in.
At least, this is how I am understanding it.
yes and no you would still benefit as long as you are fighting things at higher levels (since the 85% effective cap is based on YOUR level being equal) so disobedience would let you have 85% vs higher level things
i haven’t played in a few days, but i do believe that armor had a cap. soft caps, hard caps, some you would call helmets or masks, etc…
No this is wrong lol, the DR value is linear, and every point of DR gives more EHP the more you have. The 1st 1% is the least valuable.
Maxroll -
“At level 20 you get 0.0525% damage reduction per point of Armor and by level 25 this number goes down to 0.042%. To max out your damage reduction at these levels you need to get 2425 and 2930 Armor respectively”
Maybe I am confused but the benefit continues to reduce the higher the char level … and thus the 1st point has more % benefit than the last point … but never mind I dont stack armour 
I don’t get how you’re coming to this conclusion, that’s not what that means lmao.
Nor do I - hehehe think this from Maxroll was stuck in my head https:// (remove spaces) assets-ng.maxroll.gg/wordpress/D4_Armor_Contribution-900x502.jpg
That just shows that the %DR per armor is lower the higher your level is.
The %DR per armor is still linear, and the later points are always more valuable.
So if i have a cap of 85% armor, does that mean the additional armor from the aspect of the defiant doesn’t do any thing for me? And also how does damage reduction from other stats (like while fortified, or from close, ir simply dr as a stat on armor) relate to armor DR? Is it a separate multiplier? For example if i have DR from armor at 50% and then DR from other sources also at 50%, does that make it 75% total damage reduction?
I’m not an expert but according to this page:
maxroll.gg/d4/getting-started/defenses-for-beginners
It stacks multiplicatively. So I think that means if you have 50% from one thing and 50% from another they will stack to 75%
If you add a 3rd at 50% you should be at 87.5% reduction and so on.
The 85%-100% showed on the stats tab is only against enemies your level. If youre fighting say an enemy 10 levels higher than you, you dont have the same 85-100% you see on your tab, you have something lower than that. For EXAMPLE, if your sheet says you have 85%, then versus a enemy 10 levels higher you would have 50%. But if you had 100% on your tab, then youd have 60% versus a enemy 10 levels higher than you, instead of 50% you had with the previous 85%. So the more the better because eventually you will be fighting enemies higher than you.
Is the cap really 85% with armor. My necro armor doesn’t seem to go past the 50% i get more armor but the stats just keep saying 50%