I am still gearing my prot pally and it almost reaches armor cap (75% physical DR). Is it possible for us to reach armor cap next season ?
Not sure entirely. For secondary stats I know there’s a hard cap, but there’s also a progressive soft cap of diminishing returns. Does that also apply for armor?
Like I know with Haste, you get the full stat value from 0-30% and a 10% diminishing return from 31-39/40%. Then 20% loss from 40- something.
Took these from your other thread:
Armor:
100,915 - 45.29% (2,228 armor per 1%)
105,961 - 46.5%
185,830 - 60.39%
212,892 - 68.04% (3,128 armor per 1%)
So yeah there definitely seems to be diminishing returns. Likely wont hit the hard cap.
Damage reduction has exponential scaling. +1% at 45% DR is 1/55 less dmg taken, but +1% at 68% DR is 1/32 less dmg taken. So it looks like armor has diminishing return, but in fact, it doesn’t.
The armor hard cap has been 75%, I am not sure whether blizzard changed it at some point.
Well what you pointed out shows there’s diminishing returns to armor value. I know there is a cap, but it takes more and more armor to go up a % which is the diminishing returns part of it. If there was no diminishing returns then you would see something like if 100 armor = 10% then 200 armor would be 20%.