Is armor just an arbitrary number that doesnt mean or do anything? Why is Plate getting shredded by Physical dmg?
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lol that makes no sense
And having almost 30% reduction against Physical seems to no do anything
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yeah no clue really. i know it reduces physical damage but DK’s are almost the squishiest thing in the game, so idk if it being plate has any factor.
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Isn’t most melee damage now some kind of magic damage?
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Pretty much this… Also you do notice it a bit… Try healing on a mw monk vs hpally vs a melee cleave. The mobility saves you but if they connect for a split second you’ll notice the difference.
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even when targeting someone to bring up the damage reduction against a specific target, damage reduction will vary depending on their ilvl in comparison to yours. Low ilvl dudes ill have like 35% damage reduction, but against equal ilvl it will match the “evenly matched enemy.” so somehow armors effectiveness is tied to equipped ilvl of you and your target. which is bonkers.
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Sounds like scaling!! Pitch forks out?
doesn’t help that the efficacy of armor has been drastically reduced over time
i remember a time when plate classes/tank specs would commonly have around 60% dr against phys dmg, and even higher for the tank specs
now you’re lucky if you break around 35%
to me it seems that armor classes don’t matter anymore other than seperating you from the other classes
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common misconception; no
fury, outlaw, bm are all almost exclusively physical. enhance, sub and sv have a mix of both. assa it doesn’t matter because bleeds aren’t armored, ditto necro feral(convoke feral is still gonna notice armor)
what makes armor bad right now is that a lot of burst damage from the physical specs is so large that you’re living with a massive defensive cd that dwarfs armor or with peeling/kiting. ime at least, calculating to tank poorly-set-up damage is not common this season, so target choice is dictated by good or bad defensive cds, ignoring armor
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Because every spec does some sort of magic damage during burst windows that is unaffected by armor.
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This ain’t it, chief.
Every covenant ability does spell damage. That’s part of people’s burst.
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Missing the mark entirely.
Na things like Warriors and MM hunters are almost exclusively Physical
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idk what’s more fried this post or the fact that lasso liked it
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My thinking here he is with 30% dr from armor + 15-20% via Vers + whatever wall I have im still taking a ton of dmg…I get magic goes through but I would think the plate classes should be able to take hits better from Physical.
Read what I first said again.
As in some of it not all
As in not all the time just during burst windows.
Kennie then said it’s false but every covenant ability is magic and is pressed to do big damage therefore that’s “some” of the damage during “burst windows”.
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Necro banner doesn’t do magic damage iirc, and that’s a big one for warriors.
And doesn’t Kyrian marks aoe LOS circle thing also not do initial damage? Idr
Yea but the biggest offenders use the mastery boost to stack holy/shadow damage or bleeds