Path of Exile 3.16 Balance - Part 2 - Core Character Defences and Recovery

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Base Types are now generated with a random 0-10% higher base defence, as an inbuilt currently-non-modifiable property. This means that all base types can be better than they currently are, and armour base types are not homogeneous any more. Energy Shield values on base types instead vary from 0-20%.

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mindcontroler wrote:

For all intents and purposes, the problem with armour still remains. The problem was never "it doesn't mitigate damage effectively" (well, it kinda was), but instead it was "I have NO IDEA how much I'm being hit for). In the example you use a 2K damage hit, where is that happening mostly? Act 6? Maps? How much does a particular white enemy, in a white map, hit for, for me to know 10K armour is decent? Or 20K? How can I calculate that mitigation, if I have no idea of the damage that's being dealt to me? When you take into account mods that add damage to enemies, it's even worse.

Just make armour reduce damage by a perfect percentage. If I have 10K armour, that reduces physical damage by 10%. Or 20%. Or something. If I'm stacking armour, I take less damage from physical hits, period. Not "I take less damage given how much damage is actually being dealt to me, because this a calculation based on 30 others calculations".

Does the change mean that if an enemy hit me for 15K damage and I have 10K armour, my armour is completely pointless? It mitigates nothing? Come on.