how much armor needed to tank Drox slam?

anyone try to tank this asshat slam?

how much armor needed? 50k? 100k? 10 million?

sometimes server lag or all the animation shenanigans cause his AOE slam to have mega AOE even half a screen away also get one shot.


white map btw.

he doesnt hit behind him but nearly the full area infront of him

ok, but cannot really tell which direction he is facing.


also, notice when he mumble something that sounds like "youres fee", and his next melee hit takes my hp down to like a few points, even with 10k armor.
well, 10k armor is paper i know.

I've tanked this slam on several different characters, it honestly doesn't require THAT much armor.

Without looking at your build, I'm going to just say that the problem is almost definitely a lack of HP.

I think you can look up the exact damage numbers for every attack on poedb. Then take the physical damage part of it, multiply it by awakening bonus, map mods, sextants etc and then the armor needed to mitigate it can be calculated that way.

But I have a feeling you don't actually care about the answer to that and instead wanted to make a point ;)

i has 71601 armor.

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stalkingjackal wrote:

I think you can look up the exact damage numbers for every attack on poedb. Then take the physical damage part of it, multiply it by awakening bonus, map mods, sextants etc and then the armor needed to mitigate it can be calculated that way.

But I have a feeling you don't actually care about the answer to that and instead wanted to make a point ;)

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This,
if you "really want to know" how to survive with your current build you need to check it out on PoB.

It's not as simple as "What's the minimum Armor" but you need to calculate the monster level awake your current life/ES, stats etc. It's always better check it yourself in the pub instead of calculating it manually lol.

I don't know, I like giving away a single socket for an unsupported guard-skill. Helps a lot.

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mokabro wrote:

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stalkingjackal wrote:

I think you can look up the exact damage numbers for every attack on poedb. Then take the physical damage part of it, multiply it by awakening bonus, map mods, sextants etc and then the armor needed to mitigate it can be calculated that way.

But I have a feeling you don't actually care about the answer to that and instead wanted to make a point ;)

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This,
if you "really want to know" how to survive with your current build you need to check it out on PoB.

It's not as simple as "What's the minimum Armor" but you need to calculate the monster level awake your current life/ES, stats etc. It's always better check it yourself in the pub instead of calculating it manually lol.

thanks for your discussions.

did on white map so no map mods.
awakening bonus should not affect boss damage, only life.
and of course no sextant.

i checked up his damage after my 2nd encounter, not for the slam but because his normal melee almost kill me several times. Was surprised this default melee does 3716–5574 base damage, which is even higher than his gloves swipe (Deals 30% less Attack Damage).


https://poedb.tw/us/Drox%2C_The_Warlord#DroxTheWarlordAtlasExile4Apparition


No banner damage numbers listed but they do damage too as widely known.


After looking at this video done by sirgog, as long as non-melee build (likely with high armour of 50k or more), it is best to stay as far away from him, and expect a larger AOE than shown.
When i die to all the other 3 conquerors i blame myself but Drox, i get angry as it is partially due to too many things on the screen. but guess it is what it is for this game.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdDWQ_fg9tc

the exact answer is right in the link you provided: 1.9 x 4645 = 8826 damage. That's quite low for a boss and doesn't take a lot of mitigation to survive. I don't think I've ever noticed Drox being particularly rippy compared to any of the other conquerors.