Fortify Mastery?

"Melee Hits Fortify
-3 to maximum Fortification"


If you pick that mastery, then you would get fortify on every melee attack hit, right? But what does -3 to maximum Fortification mean? I dont get it?

The fortify cap is lowered by 3 (= 3% less damage mitigation?).

Fortify stacks from now on - the defaultlvl is 20. minus 3 means, you can´t have the bonus you get from having "full" fortification (unless you take the second fortify-mastery to get "+3 fortify").

The full range of what-it-means-to-have-full-fortify i don´t know... hope, this helps.

Taking this mastery does not guarantee fortify stacks on every melee hit, I dont know if it is bugged or was not intended to guarantee stacks.

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saintvio2 wrote:

Taking this mastery does not guarantee fortify stacks on every melee hit, I dont know if it is bugged or was not intended to guarantee stacks.

"Sources of Fortify now grant a number of stacks of Fortification based on the percentage of the enemy's ailment threshold dealt by the hit that applied Fortify to you, with a large bonus to fortification stack generation against rare and unique monsters. You have 1% less damage taken from hits for each stack of Fortification, and Fortification lasts 5 seconds by default. Fortification from multiple melee hits or different sources stacks, up to a default cap of 20 stacks. You can only gain Fortification stacks from one hit every 0.1 seconds."

.. patch notes ...

you can find it explained in patch notes or one of the pre-league balance articles

All it does is eliminate the need for any Fortify support...it doesn't guarantee you will gain Fortify on hit (Fortify support doesn't either). You still need to meet the new damage threshold req's on each hit to determine how much Fortify you gain, if any.

Default max Fortify is 20, and that mastery drops it to 17. There are +6 in the passives around it though which can take you up to 23. There's also another +3 you can get from mastery in the other Fortify cluster. But getting the 100% increased duration might be a better choice if you're struggling to gain Fortify, especially against bosses and such.