Clarification: Armour and Energy Shield Mastery

Hi all, currently theory building my 3.21 league starter thanks to the early release of the PoB update. Ran into a question I had about the new Armour and Energy Shield Mastery change: (New) 100% increased Armour and Energy Shield from Equipped Body Armour if Equipped Gloves, Helmet and Boots all have Armour and Energy Shield.

How does this apply to a chest piece like Skin of the Lords? I assume it would only apply to the base chest piece numerical values. But does it apply to ANY armour or energy shield provided from the chest piece? I'm curious if it would get the modifier of 100% increased global defences, and then gain a further 100% on the armour and Energy shield values. That would drastically change things up.

Thanks in advance.

You should wait for confirmation since i am not 100% sure but i am fairly confident that the mod applies to base armor/ES on the chest piece. Since skins doesn't have base armor/ES the increase has no base stat to apply to and will be wasted. It's not a global increase like what skin of the lords gives.

Yeah I assume that is the case, but I would feel robbed if I didn't do my due diligence and miss out if it was applying to ANY Armour/ES provided by the chest piece.

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Sarkonis7 wrote:

Yeah I assume that is the case, but I would feel robbed if I didn't do my due diligence and miss out if it was applying to ANY Armour/ES provided by the chest piece.

The mastery should work just like the Juggernaut ascendancy "Unbreakable" (Armour received from body armour is doubled). If you have a juggernaut and a skin, you can test it yourself.

Or you can use PoB, it's already updated with the new passive tree.