Please confirm Reinforced Barrier Notable Interaction

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MonaHuna#6449 wrote:

No wonder you came to this conclusion. With Reinforced Barrier you defend with Armour * 1.2. With 100% increased Armour, your Armour is x2.

The interaction can be easily tested with Heartbound Loop. But there's no reason it shouldn't work with 0 ES.

Spent some time trying to test with Heartbound Loop as you suggested.

Pain in the ass because it provides Regen, but I was able to capture numbers by recording and then going frame by frame when damage occurred.

2741 - 2698 = 43 damage (without barrier) @ 17696 Armour
2741 - 2700 = 41 damage (with barrier) @ 17696 Armour
2741 - 2704 = 37 damage (without barrier) @ 19819 Armour (3x plating stacks)

So it does in fact work, but it seems rather bad.

Whatever benefit it provides is less than 2123 Armour. So clearly it's not 120% of total Armour after increases as that should be 3539.

Reinforced Barrier seem 3 times less effective than 2123 additional Armour. So kind of equivalent to 707 additional Armour, which is closer to my calculated 20% of my base Armour from gear (4586)...

So for Armour alone it's a really bad node.