Path of Exile 1 Gameplay Help and Discussion - How much armour is enough for a melee cyclone char for endgame? - Forum

Are you using shield defense nodes with a high armor / evasion shield??? They are probably some of the best defensive nodes in the current tree if paired with a proper shield. Also getting a lightning coil or queen of the forest can help if your having problems vs physical. Also don't forget that your physical mitigation is scaling based on your life pool. So getting some more life nodes may be what you need more so then physical reduction.	Posted by CalamityAOE#5632 on Jan 19, 2015, 9:31:27 PM Quote this Post
To be fair, ALL mitigation scales with your life pool. It's sort of why Belly of the Beast has become a BIS item for many builds. IGN: Ikimashouka, Tsukiyattekudasai, DontCallMeMrFroyo	Posted by gilrad#6851 on Jan 19, 2015, 10:39:57 PM Quote this Post
I use 6k armor on my RF cycloner without really gearing for it. by itself 6k is not much, but combined with 7 endurance charges + lvl 20IC/CWDT or lvl20IC, its extremely tanky. if you dont want to do charges, Id say you want 10k, but still IC is way safer and better. however, having some armour, like 3k will make sure you dont get wrecked instantly when youre trying to cast EC/get CWDT to proc EC/IC. the other great option is lightning coil.	Posted by grepman#2451 on Jan 20, 2015, 12:24:49 AM Quote this Post
" MortalKombat3 wrote: " Griwas wrote: So with iron reflexes i got 13k armor and 53% phys reduction im planing to drop grace in favor or herald of ash and lets say heraold of thunder if i drop grace i will have around 7-8k armor and 40% phys reduction, my question, is 40% dmg reduction enough for apex of sacrifice? and what if i lets say drop iron reflexes and go for soul of steel il have like 37% phys reduction and 21% evasion without grace? whats the best option? is the dps from ash and thunder worth the 13% phys reduction i loose? or it doesnt matter much in endgame maps like apex of sacrifice cos of armor mitigation? and yes i have now bonus 1k hp thx to kaoms and will have around 5.2k with 24k cyclone dps and 5% life leach without blood rage or warlords mark, that are the stats and one of the reasons i plan to drop grace and some defensive nods in favor of some dps oriented ones cos i got a kaoms now. thx 0 armour. Because armour is useless, cool kids use Immortal Call or Lightning Coil. This.	Posted by And1111#6139 on Jan 20, 2015, 2:26:20 AM Quote this Post
My cyclone Char got 49k Armor its something like 87% absorbtion , but while wearing Abyssus its still not enought.	Posted by delixo#7190 on Jan 20, 2015, 2:47:06 AM Quote this Post