They nerfed soul of steel

nervs on paper are buffs in practice


Imbalanced Guard
100% chance to Defend with Double Armour
Maximum Damage Reduction for any Damage Type is 50%


https://www.pathofexile.com/harvest
body armour: nearbye enemies have lightning resistance equal to yours


so you have -60light resist but still migate 75%of it?

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Gravedancer wrote:

Yeah, I saw that...

More like Soul of Tin Foil now. Wonder if its still the most expensive annoint?

Hahaha you made my day xD

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Tommyvv wrote:

nervs on paper are buffs in practice


Imbalanced Guard
100% chance to Defend with Double Armour
Maximum Damage Reduction for any Damage Type is 50%


https://www.pathofexile.com/harvest
body armour: nearbye enemies have lightning resistance equal to yours


so you have -60light resist but still migate 75%of it?

How do you bypass the "Maximum Damage Reduction for any Damage Type is 50%" limitation?

It would be an ok change if we could mitigate physical DoT with Armour.
They have added lots of DoT, on kill effects and other crap cluttering screen while killing melee.

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xMustard wrote:

to be fair, you lose 5% from that node, but gain 6% with 3 endurance charges (base) and just using enduring cry

i imagine many people will just use enduring cry instead of anointing that notable. as in builds that don't progress through armor or left side of the tree at all

and you know what? its still a defensive buff for those people

You need 200% increased skill effect duration for the enduring cry buff to last as long as the enduring cry cooldown.

That's not a buff for melee, that's a buff for the hardcore warcry synergy people. Melee isn't nearly in a good enough spot to tell them "well now your build also has to stack tons of duration and/or cooldown reduction".

the anoint cost also changed, which indicated the dev know it is not the most valuable notable.

Now (3.11) 3 golden oil for an additional curse, not Soul of Steel

I know you guys don't wanna hear it, but obviously they want to give more meaning to armour investment. Flat phys damage reduction was a bit excessive - why go armour when you can just go phys damage reduction. I think they need to up some armour values and maybe add more flat armour to the tree, but that will probably follow.

"systematic nerf to melee" ... common guys lol

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dyneol wrote:

I know you guys don't wanna hear it, but obviously they want to give more meaning to armour investment. Flat phys damage reduction was a bit excessive - why go armour when you can just go phys damage reduction. I think they need to up some armour values and maybe add more flat armour to the tree, but that will probably follow.

"systematic nerf to melee" ... common guys lol

Investing in armour only helps with some types of physical damage; specifically on hit physical damage. It does absolutely nothing for damage over time. They've gone out of their way to make armour less relevant as they've added more sources of physical damage over time to the game.

If they want to encourage armour investment, then they should make the mitigation universal like elemental and chaos resists.

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Nubatron wrote:

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dyneol wrote:

I know you guys don't wanna hear it, but obviously they want to give more meaning to armour investment. Flat phys damage reduction was a bit excessive - why go armour when you can just go phys damage reduction. I think they need to up some armour values and maybe add more flat armour to the tree, but that will probably follow.

"systematic nerf to melee" ... common guys lol

Investing in armour only helps with some types of physical damage; specifically on hit physical damage. It does absolutely nothing for damage over time. They've gone out of their way to make armour less relevant as they've added more sources of physical damage over time to the game.

If they want to encourage armour investment, then they should make the mitigation universal like elemental and chaos resists.

Correct me if I am missing something, but the only physical DOT's I can think of are elder ground degen and Bleeds/Corrupted blood with the latter 2 being solved by flasks/immunity on literally every build. Oh, and I guess there are Lab traps but you don't really need PDR for them.

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TheFazzo wrote:

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Tommyvv wrote:

nervs on paper are buffs in practice


Imbalanced Guard
100% chance to Defend with Double Armour
Maximum Damage Reduction for any Damage Type is 50%


https://www.pathofexile.com/harvest
body armour: nearbye enemies have lightning resistance equal to yours


so you have -60light resist but still migate 75%of it?

I think this combination caps elemental resistances at 50% and gives you zero physical resistance, did I get this right? So your enemies also have 50% max res. But if it works as I think it does it is a 2 passive-1 way ticket to suicide.

Resistances aren't damage reduction so no, Imbalanced Guard doesn't limit them or less/reduced damage taken effects. So transcendence reduce elemental hits further after resistances at the cost of having no physical reduction. Only desireable if you have lots of damage conversion but definitely a powerful concept if you have the budget.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

Correct me if I am missing something, but the only physical DOT's I can think of are elder ground degen and Bleeds/Corrupted blood with the latter 2 being solved by flasks/immunity on literally every build. Oh, and I guess there are Lab traps but you don't really need PDR for them.

I was referring to elements in the game where you need armour to work the most, but instead you have to create another source to mitigate it. You named the sources I was referring to. (Lab, Sirus Die Beam, Elder being my main points)

I was responding specifically to the notion that they might be trying to create incentive around armor. The biggest incentive to armour after you meet a minimum threshold was for Vaal Molten Shell.

The last few leagues I've played a 50k armour build, and I sometimes switched another setup that dropped my armour by nearly 80% and the difference between those two values was negligible.