Is The Fourth Vow really working with Divine Flesh?

Tried out The fourth Vow + Divine Flesh combination and this feels like armour does not apply to Converted Chaos Damage from Hits.

I had 0% Chaos Res (Not negative, just a zero) and about 80% physical reduction ~23k armour. And when I took Divine Flesh elemental hits became so hard, like its converted to chaos part was not mitigated at all. Tested on 3 different maps, removing and adding Divine Flesh in the middle of the map and felt like I take less elemental damage without Divine Flesh. Is that the case?

I know armour works worse against big hits but damage delta was kinda too much, and if THAT is the case, I don't really know where this chest can be really useful.
Last bumped on Apr 14, 2023, 11:50:07 AM
Quick example:

10 000 ele dmg

w/o Divine Flesh:
with 75% res you take 2500 dmg
total - 2500 dmg

with Divine Flesh:
5000 dmg with 75% res you take 1250 dmg
5000 dmg with 0% chaos res and armour (armor reduces about a quarter) you take 3750
total - 5000 dmg
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seaman wrote:
Quick example:

10 000 ele dmg

w/o Divine Flesh:
with 75% res you take 2500 dmg
total - 2500 dmg

with Divine Flesh:
5000 dmg with 75% res you take 1250 dmg
5000 dmg with 0% chaos res and armour (armor reduces about a quarter) you take 3750
total - 5000 dmg


Yeah, I understand, I had same calculations.

But why does armor reduce about a quarter? Is't it supposed to, like, reduce the same percent as for phys. dmg?
Last edited by denistalalae#3713 on Apr 14, 2023, 10:21:46 AM
It reduces by the same percentage as for phys damage. 80% is estimated damage reduction against white monster's default hit. 20k armor will block 80% of damage on a hit of about 1000 damage

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Armour#Formulas

You need to cap chaos res.
with Divine Flesh and capped chaos res:
5000 dmg with 75% res you take 1250 dmg
5000 dmg with 80% chaos res (1000 dmg) and armour you take 200 dmg (but I'm not sure what counts first, res or armor)
total - 1450 dmg
Last edited by seaman#4993 on Apr 14, 2023, 10:38:41 AM
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seaman wrote:
It reduces by the same percentage as for phys damage. 80% is estimated damage reduction against white monster's default hit. 20k armor will block 80% of damage on a hit of about 1000 damage

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Armour#Formulas

You need to cap chaos res.
with Divine Flesh and capped chaos res:
5000 dmg with 75% res you take 1250 dmg
5000 dmg with 80% chaos res (1000 dmg) and armour you take 200 dmg (but I'm not sure what counts first, res or armor)
total - 1450 dmg


So, yeah, I have to get a good Chaos Res to get full benifit from Armour. I think, I don't really need to reduce 20% of 50% of hit (60% hit dmg total) to 4% (52% hit dmg total) at the cost of having Vow instead of a decent chest.

My initial idea was to get armour cap instead of chaos res cap and benefit from Divine Flesh but yeah it is what it is.

Thank you!
Last edited by denistalalae#3713 on Apr 14, 2023, 11:50:15 AM

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