Empowered by the divine, you fear no weapon of man.

hierophant would love this, not sure about the rest.

But the new bosses will hit 2909402984K, still meh.

Can you still reserve 100% Mana? Or does the conversion only work for unreserved mana?

Can i use this to gain about 4000 base armor (considering i have 2500 mana), then reserve 100% of my mana and then cover it with EB to still be able to use skills?

80% of nothing is still nothing.
Besides armour is a worthless stat against what it should be good against, big hits while you're in melee range.

Well it says maximum mana, so reservation shouldn't matter.

Mana guardians will like this with aegis. Same with heiro. If they can be bothered travelling that far!

On the bright side, they have now made that node something that people will pick maybe?

Edit: if it just uses your total mana pool, Low life mana guardian + memory vault + this will have a ton of armour ;)

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HerrImHimmel wrote:

Can you still reserve 100% Mana? Or does the conversion only work for unreserved mana?

Can i use this to gain about 2000 base armor (considering i have 2500 mana), then reserve 100% of my mana and then cover it with EB to still be able to use skills?

if i remember correctly convert turns it into armor so if you have 2500 mana then 80% will be converted and 20% will remain as your maximum mana (not reserved or used in any way).

with a base of 2500 mana so you will be left with a total mana pool of 500 and 4000 armor.

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Nubman wrote:

Mana guardians will like this with aegis. Same with heiro. If they can be bothered travelling that far!

On the bright side, they have now made that node something that people will pick maybe?

if i got the mechanic right then guardian wont benefit from it since your mana will be turned into armor leaving you with a small mana pool to work with.

it has the potential for some builds to obtain obscene levels of armor but who needs so much armor anyway? phys damage is already the least scary damage thanks to inmortal call and endurance charges.

Oh right, armor, that thing I've ignored on 100% of my characters since 2012. And white mobs will still one shot you if you take this node.

To everyone complaining about armour - did you ever consider that they may be reworking it? I feel like it has always been GGGs intention for armour to be the melee defensive layer (half the reason melee has suffered for so long), and this big melee rework could also be an armour rework.