Medium Armour focus and spell shield vs elemental Armour and hardy

bloodthirstyvampire

Could anybody possibly tell me the difference between the 2 sides, whats more useful between maxing out hardy and elemental Armour, vs medium Armour focus and spell shield.

bloodthirstyvampire

What side offers the most survive ability

bloodthirstyvampire

Any idea

Minno

ViciousVamps1 wrote: »

Any idea

Depending on your current armor value, sometimes adding 1-10 points only gets you a 2% increase in mitigation whereas the same points in hardy/ele expert gets you 5% dmg mitigation.

After 10 points in straight armor, it's a waste since you'll never even reach 10% reduction (and need to use 100 points) whereas 27 points in both hardy/ele expert would easily get you that sweet 10% reduction.

Also if you use a magicka shield for defense, hardy/thick skin/ele expert/whatever gives percentage on dmg reduction is calculated before shields. So on paper, your Shield will be stronger since it won't be taking the full tooltip dmg of a player or the dmg of a pve mob.

bloodthirstyvampire

I don't know build up a resistance, or resist a percentage of damage entirely

bloodthirstyvampire

Minno wrote: »

ViciousVamps1 wrote: »

Any idea

Depending on your current armor value, sometimes adding 1-10 points only gets you a 2% increase in mitigation whereas the same points in hardy/ele expert gets you 5% dmg mitigation.

After 10 points in straight armor, it's a waste since you'll never even reach 10% reduction (and need to use 100 points) whereas 27 points in both hardy/ele expert would easily get you that sweet 10% reduction.

Also if you use a magicka shield for defense, hardy/thick skin/ele expert/whatever gives percentage on dmg reduction is calculated before shields. So on paper, your Shield will be stronger since it won't be taking the full tooltip dmg of a player or the dmg of a pve mob.

Interesting thank you for your input

Minno

ViciousVamps1 wrote: »

I don't know build up a resistance, or resist a percentage of damage entirely

Armor can be debuffed. Dmg reduction can only be countered with dmg increases.

If you put 58 points into Hardy, you'll get a 17% dmg mitigation against all physical dmg sources. That means an attack on you is reduced by 17%. For pve, hardy/elemental defender are better, since pve mobs cannot (as far as I know) increase their dmg to counter your reduction.

If you put 100 points in light armor focus, you'll only get a 9% dmg reduction on physical dmg. That's a waste of champion points. And if in PvP, the attacker had sharpened traits, they can remove 8% of your reduction easily.

Makes sense?

bloodthirstyvampire

Im not the sharpest knife in the crayon box ty for the assistance, really i appreciate it