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I don't know why Armor has to be 100% physical negation. I would think having armor on would negate at least some damage from a fireball or shard of ice hurled at you.

My suggestion is just turn armor into es, system auto choose the highest stats and use that.

<plays vidya gaem 18hrs/day> "Hey guys, I finally have a bit of time to offer my take on this hot topic."

If STR base types had better implicits like max all res and max life, it would help tremendously. Why the hell do the hybrid bases have this but not the pure bases? GGG is seriously overvaluing Armour, punishing it with crippling downsides like huge reduced movespeed and no implicits. This is asinine. Just. Give. STR Gear. Maximum. Resistances. In the game that they love oh so much, Diablo 2, phys reduction was a resistance and maxed to (50?)%. All Armour gave what is now Evasion. Armour was simply destined to fail when they are obsessed with aping Diablo 2 instead of evolving its systems. It's become very clear that they intend for Armour to suck ass for damn near a decade, all because it strays from the design of Diablo 2, where max physical resistance was pisslow. They want it to crumple under slams. Energy Shield is the golden child, so it gets to mitigate against everything by default. Rant over.

Bro why u not play mace skills as a monk, hes the closest guy to ev/es nodes

"Armour only applies to physical damage" is kind of not true. It only applies to physical HITS that are SMALL. So even MORE restrictive. Armor is actually the biggest problem in the entire game, and nobody knows it. 4 of the next 6 classes will use armor, and will be all the worse for it. Its a major incoming controversy that will bite GGG in the ass if they don't redesign armor completely.

I’m tryna a beserker build right now and I know it’ll be really rough. Need armour, evasion and life leetch for sure

Po3 will fix it

And maybe they significantly buff phy attacks of monsters

In the current state of the game there is "armour breaking" mechanics. If you go into a hideout and put your cursor over a character you will see the exact same armour icon you also see on monsters. My theory is that armour is going to have a huge overhaul but it is an unfinished product and not introduced in the game yet. Armour will become a resource just like Energy Shield. The only downside is that, this does not fix the elemental damage problem unless they plan to make elemental damage also synergize with armour breaking mechanics.

I was a full armor warbringer using maces and eventually I caved despite using giants blood with a shield with max block and the ascendency that gives block all hits. Didnt matter once one of those hits got through, despite having max res,including chaos. Swapped to an energy shield shield and cloak of flames alone survivability increased like 5x times. Armor is broken and GGG need to fundamentally change thier design philosophy around it. I don't want molten shell I think it should just provide a global damage reduction, and inate push resistence or something to compensate the move speed penalty. The whole concept of it being good against small hits is dumb, when you are building a tank small hits is the last thing you care about

Funny that i can survive with evasion only build(no max life) in t15 and above..while my warrior keep dying with armor, max life, max block and little bit of energy shield..

I don't know what rate it would have to work, but if like you gained .01% res per armour? I"m not sure I'm not dev.

100% agree.

75% ele resist 3k life ≈ 12k ehp against ele oneshots 75% armour 3k life ≈ 4k ehp against phys oneshots the "armour only works against small hits" formula necessitates that it does virtually nothing against anything that might actually kill you and the most terrifying thing is GGG doesn't seem to consider this an issue. btw this also makes breaking enemy armour finctionally useless as with any decent build you overwhelm >90% boss armour by default.

GGG need to get rid of these obnoxious, unalterable total attack times on skills. They also need to buff life. I know they got rid of increased life nodes because everyone always "had" to get them... but the got rid of life nodes and left shitloads of + evasion and + energy shield nodes. Armour is also too low on equipment to even give you significant effect; its ridiculous that the monk ascendancy node that makes evasion count towards phys resist (while lowering evasion rating by 40%) still gives you more armour than if you focused on armour as a stat on something like warrior. There was very obviously a split at some point between dev work on PoE1 and PoE2, because Settler's of Kalguur fixed SO MANY melee issues, only for PoE2 to completely ignore it and regress to even worse than before.

Armour is only part of the problem. The real problem is effective life pool. Armour for sure needs a buff, but melee builds simply need access to more life. What if pure Armour gear had a higher potential for life affixes compared to other gear? Then Armour users get more life, which would solve a lot if the effective hit pool issues

GGG: "PoE 2 will fix melee!" PoE2: 🖕🤓

I do a lot of thorns/reflect builds and it's insane to me how bad armour is for this. Without investing 100+ divs it just feels awful. Then having to invest so many passive nodes into armour as well. Or I just run energy shield and call it a day and can spend my passives on crit. Playing with armour is a joke right now.

Armor needs to give flat DR or limited DR vs Elemental. It also needs to work vs non-hit damage as well.

Armor is bad, but not worthless against physicals. Trialmasters slam did 3400 dmg against Bajheera when he had 75% armor and 4,7k hp. I had 3k hp + 2k ES and died from the same attack with Cloak of Flame (41% as fire) and 86% fire res with 25% armor. Lets just play that the attack does 10k, then the 75% armor from the big hit was "counted" as 65% so it removed 6,6k dmg from him. My 25% armor could NOT save me from the 59% physical remaining from the same attack as my armor only being 25% being less then that from a big hit, but 25% even so would only make the 5,9k remaining physical to 4,4k that together with the fire dmg of 600 is a total of 5k which was my entire HP+ES.

Listen to this man GGG he knows !

ggg betrayed me - they didn't make melee great again, going back to wow hc classic, i revenged for you, Carn, btw - i killed those satyrs on my warrior!

Armour is shiit praying for Slayer overleech to be like grim feast and all be OK with shiit Armour also instant leech for slayer give me that instead of cull

I feel like if warrior had significantly more access to speed nodes, movement and attack combined with better armour with small amount of elemental resistances, then I think warrior would feel MUCH better. Playing without a shield on warrior in suicide on harder maps.

i agree

Me, lvl 24 still in campaign, watching this video 😂😂 someday man… someday

I adapted the build with Earthshatter and attack speed rather than Stampede. It's more fun to play I think.

INCREDIBLE! This is so fun! Bought all Area of Effect nodes haha, clears the screen easy. Cudos to you Carn for sharing this!!

Hey, can someone let me know the rotation on this? My smooth brain cant figure it out. @cArn_

Does anybody know if hes maxed out his atlas tree? Curious how hes handling high level pinnacle bosses. Not sure if HotG is one shotting those too

This just got nerfed

how the fukk they nerf armour explosion and didnt touch herald of ice

how do you get 75% block?

Thank you for the hard work. Nice Guide. I'm having hard time on boss stun build up. The stun build up on some bosses are really slow(2H Weapon PDPS 750). Is that normal. Thank you.

Why is the Herald of Ice active whereas its prerequisites are in red ?

Is this build still vaild?? Anyupdate ? After the patch?

Hello excuse me what jewels do you recommend? what modifiers? thanks.

how would you play this build without the ring in ssf?

Wich is better, a weapon with 550 DPS and + melee skills or 700 DPS without all melee skills bonus?

I see that skills tree heavily relies on weapon swap. I can figure out that first swap is shield for aoe clear, while swap is dual wielding with many +skills for hotg. Which other skills should be set and used with II weapon tree?

bro why you looks so tanky lol

What exactly is being used in your G skill? And why do I lose DPS when using two maces in weapon set 2? Since they have almost the same attribute as in the video.

local man has six skills on his bar, only lad playing poe2 the way they intended

I may be stupid but why do we need to have two of the same weapon for the second set ? Right now I don't have this and losing about 45% DPS on HOTG when I swap weapons (all my weapons are at least 700pdps)

dam i just sold that ring for 2 devs the last week in trade just ... now i want it back lol

how much armour do you have?

holy titties ! much much better then my perfect strike/baneshatter.. luckily i just got that ring :D thanks for a great and fun build :)

What is your chest armor stats?

Im running a warrior gemling and i have this same set up but no restrictions from attributes. The whole setup is pure strength. I use these gloves that allows me to use any melee weapon & skills. If i ever switch to another warrior setup i will feel limited i think.