Mag shield stacker pvp armor traits

scipionumatia

Hey guys, relatively new to playing mágika in pvp. If I'm rockin a magwarden using harness magika, what traits do I want on my armor? Do I go the pve-esk route and use all divines? On stam I normally go full impen or 5 impen minimum but since you can't crit shields it seems kinda nonsensical to use impen light armor.

HoloYoitsu

Your traits should be full impen unless you like getting blown up by anything that overflows your shield.

Asardes

Impenetrable is good with or without shield, because you will never have 100% uptime on those. Shields are halved in PvP and only last 6s which leaves plenty of time when you are unprotected. Most basic attacks will do 5-6K damage in PvP but some will hit for up to 20K under various circumstances. Your shields will be 7-8K. Assuming no points in precise strikes/elf born means that you will get hit with 8-9K when unshielded, of which 2-3K will be critical damage. 7 gold impenetrable armor pieces give about 1.8K critical resistance. Which can negate most of that extra damage. Note that while attacks that land on shields can't land a critical hit by default, damage that surpasses the shield strength can.

Waffennacht

The only time impen isn't a solid choice is if you're running impregnable and are at 3k ish crit resistance

scipionumatia

Ok cool, just wondering.