% of Armour applies to Ele damage

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karsey#2995 wrote:

The armour applied to elemental has been a game changer. Very easy to get 150-200% of your armour applies to elemental damage.

Before this, if you had 75% res and took 1000 damage from an elemental hit it means the original hit was for 4000, which means now, in a situation where you have 15k armour applied to elemental (not difficult to get), the elemental damage is reduced by 27% first from the armour, then further by 75% resistances, and you now take 730 damage (26% less damage than you were receiving before).

That is an equivalent damage taken to a scenario where you instead have ~83% resistance with no armour applied to the elemental damage!

Of course, the utility of the armour diminishes the larger the elemental hit - but resistances weren't saving us from any mega-slams anyways, so in practice, this has been a huge boon to survivability for armour-based characters.

I think where it's seen the most utility is in the map mods for "monsters gain x% damage as y element", in that if the monster was a physical damage based character to begin with, with decent %armour applied to ele dmg, they aren't suddenly much scarier for armour-based characters.

If they were already doing elemental damage though... that's where it can get deadly, I think it's emphasized the importance of also getting critical strike damage reduction for these classes!