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Why is there Armor Damage Mitigation Cap but no Armor Penetration Cap?
LegendaryNinja
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I don't think ZOS have ever answered this?
This applies to both the Armor 33k cap and the 50% damage reduction when you are at armor cap. The thing is you can't counter or offset Armor Penetration.
Example:
Mayor Breach and Fracture + Minor Breach and Fracture + CP(25% Armor Penetration) + Armor Fracture Weapon Enchantment + Gear Set(Like Night mothers Gaze)= 0 effective armor.
This applies to both the Armor 33k cap and the 50% damage reduction when you are at armor cap. The thing is you can't counter or offset Armor Penetration.
Example:
Mayor Breach and Fracture + Minor Breach and Fracture + CP(25% Armor Penetration) + Armor Fracture Weapon Enchantment + Gear Set(Like Night mothers Gaze)= 0 effective armor.
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susmitds✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭This is a armor penetration cap, it is your max armor. Your total armor can't fall below zero.Edited by susmitds on May 30, 2016 5:54PM0 -
LegendaryNinja✭✭✭Also, lets say if there wasn't an armor cap and you could stack as much armor as possible:
-Mayor Armor Buff counters the Mayor Armor Debuff
-Minor Armor Buff counters the Minor Armor Debuff
-???? Enchantment counters the Fracture Weapon Enchant
-???? Counters the Two-handed and Duel Wield passives that bypass 20% Armor Penetration or the Light Armor Passive that gives Spell Penetration or the Destro Staff Passive that also gives 10% Spell Penetration
-Minor Protection Buff Counters Nightmothers or similar armor reducing sets
-Also as the CP tree in order to counter both Armor and Spell Penetration you need to put points into Both Spell Shield and Heavy Armor Focus Star.
I understand the changes that they've made to Blocking and resource management in Heavy Armor, I'm happy with those changes, but that was only a small portion with a greater underlying problem with how Armor works in ESO.0 -
lolo_01b16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Pls show me how to penetrate 33k armour. From a quick calculation even 2 sharpened maces + major / minor fracture + nightmother + alkosh + 100 cp in penetration is not enough to do but will make your character very weak against anyone who uses a different method to mitigate damage.1 -
LegendaryNinja✭✭✭lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »Pls show me how to penetrate 33k armour. From a quick calculation even 2 sharpened maces + major / minor fracture + nightmother + alkosh + 100 cp in penetration is not enough to do but will make your character very weak against anyone who uses a different method to mitigate damage.
It's not just about numbers, for example:
1. 20% Armor Penetration = Ignoring 20% of my armor, not a set amount.
2. Mayor Fracture= 5k-ish raw armor reduction
3. 25% Armor Penetration from CP
Note: Armor Penetration is Additive, Armor Reduction is also additive, Armor Penetration happens before Armor Reduction.
I wont do all the calculations here.
If you take everything into account you can effectively and I'll rephrase this; Ignore and/or reduce Armor so that it "effectively" means that the player or enemy has 0 armor(Effective).0