Hardened Armor - Spiked Armor Morph pretty useless

Yuke · February 2015

Spiked Armor

All ranks of this ability now also grant the buffs Major Resolve and Major Ward.

Razor Armor (morph): Renamed this ability to Hardened Armor, which now provides a damage shield equal to 10% of your maximum health. The duration of this shield lasts 3.5 seconds at Rank IV.

Volatile Armor (morph): This ability now deals increased damage over 10 seconds. The amount of damage dealt increases with each rank.

Hey all, just wanna share my thoughts regarding this morph. I think its pretty useless because of the short duration of 3.5 seconds. The typical situation for this skill is a pre-cast before fight...so before you engage the enemy the Absorb-Shield already faded, which makes the whole skill pretty useless.

Would be nice to increase the duration to something like 6-8 seconds (like they did with shielded assault)

What are your thoughts?

Armitas · February 2015

Until they changed volatile armor I never felt like either of those morphs mattered. Razer armor still feels meh.

The only thing I would change about volatile is the mechanism. The dot only applies on cast so you can't precast it. I wish it would just "apply" every second of the duration instead of casting the dot only at the beginning. Or roll it self into the damage return.

Yuke · February 2015

Yep but i think the main problem with volatile armor is that the dot triggers sets like malubeth (health beam set)...so i dont want to use it

but rightnow there is no alternative...it sucks

Armitas · February 2015

yeah I hate that set. It triggers the skoria set like crazy too.

Yuke · February 2015

Yeah. Its supposed to be a defensive skill and you start blowing yourself up with

ZoS should really look into it (or just make Hardened Armor viable)