The following 3 sets outperform Brass.

Pariah starts at 100% health with ~2400 armor. It's a hidden bonus. When you include the 2-4pc bonus, Pariah scales from 5347 armor at 100% health to 13180 armor at 1% health. To simplify, Pariah > Brass at or below 86% health.

Hatchling's Shell - You'd need something like 14k incoming damage per second for Brass to outperform Hatchling's Shell. It's easy to calculate. Hatchling's Shell with Bastion CP = 4.5k shield every 6 seconds = 750 health/s in PvP with no overhealing. Take 750 and divide it by the mitigation of Brass which is 5.18% and you have 750/0.0518 = 14478 dps. Also, armor has a multiplicative penalty with other damage mitigation sources, so Hatchling's Shell significantly outperforms Brass.

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SkaraMinoc wrote: »

The following 3 sets outperform Brass.

Pariah starts at 100% health with ~2400 armor. It's a hidden bonus. When you include the 2-4pc bonus, Pariah scales from 5347 armor at 100% health to 13180 armor at 1% health. To simplify, Pariah > Brass at or below 86% health.

Hatchling's Shell - You'd need something like 14k incoming damage per second for Brass to outperform Hatchling's Shell. It's easy to calculate. Hatchling's Shell with Bastion CP = 4.5k shield every 6 seconds = 750 health/s in PvP with no overhealing. Take 750 and divide it by the mitigation of Brass which is 5.18% and you have 750/0.0518 = 14478 dps. Also, armor has a multiplicative penalty with other damage mitigation sources, so Hatchling's Shell significantly outperforms Brass.

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Hmm but is that true across all classes? I only ask because, like arcanist can basically be shielded the whole time depending on the setup, with brass, plus CP perks. And thats without monster helm