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

the new molten shell scales a % damage reduction off total armour right?

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Ashriel wrote:

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.

if white mobs are 1 shotting you maybe its time to rethink what you think you know about defenses tbh.

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BlaqWolf wrote:

Armour? WTF is that?
You mean that stat which has no meaning when a boss throws a 100k hit at you and connects? No matter how much your mitigation is, if it connects you loose 10% of your level.

Defenses in this game are pretty suck... because when something gets through (and it will) you die, immediately. High dodge/block helps keep most of those hits from connecting, but 5% of the time it will, and you will die.
If you rely on armor... you die.

no boss throws a 100k hit at you. When it comes to phys theres maybe 1 boss in the game that does even 1/10 of that.

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suszterpatt wrote:

Still zero DoT protection...

DoT protection is called end. charges+life regen. Git gud.

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canilaz_ wrote:

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suszterpatt wrote:

Still zero DoT protection...

DoT protection is called end. charges+life regen. Git gud.

Look at armour from the point of medieval period, we just couldn't make a wound to an armoured warrior if 90% of his body was equipped. Armour should have % chance of bleed avoidance, rather then dot damage reduction.
And if we get another increases of bleed avoidance, we would be immune to it.

The casters are seeing these changes and laughing at their corner...

Aegis Aurora Builds will be back)

I'm sorry, but this thing is joke. And I say this as a player who used pure melee juggernaut-lab runner as league starter till Synthesis league, because already in Betrayal I came to the conclusion that melee builds simply do not make any sense. Armour? Pure garbage. With Brass Dome and Abyssus, 6k life 80k armour I was oneshooted by stupid Izaro in every third uber lab run. Not even mentioning the Syndicate (+50% chaos res).

I do not know who designed this "armour gem", but I know that he probably did not make it in the PoE any further than the 3rd act, stopping somewhere around the Docks and character on level 28. If this "melee league" is to look like this, then GGG will have to organize Flashback just two weeks after it started, and even then there will be no certainty that people will play it, because it's all the same in which league the player will play winter orb.

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x_KOR_x wrote:

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.

8k base armour before scaling isn't worthless even against big hits if you were a real mana-beef.

Also hilarious for Aegis Aurora as i think someone else mentioned

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Nubman wrote:

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.

What if, your armor provides Physical Damage Reduction derived from the total Armor Value that is applied to every hit. But all prevented damage gets deducted from a protection value equal to your Armor Value, which regenerates, maybe similar to Energy Shields at a certain rate after you haven't been hit for a while. Let's call it Poise. Now armor will always help unless you get pummeled.

The UI where the rage meter is shows the Poise you currently have left. That is unless you gain Rage from the Notable. Then all your base Armor Value, Increases, Reductions and flat Armor is applied to Life instead at a reduced value and you cannot have Poise.

If armor isn't reworked somehow this is terrible.

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Nubman wrote:

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.

Watch Baeclast #40 Melee in Path of Exile Legion : An Inside Look with Jonathan Rogers, armour is going to function differently with skills like molten shell.