Armor, Resistances and Damage reduction theory simplified

[Hwaygo]

So this thread has been floating around in the Barb forums, but i thought it made more sense for it to be here.

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A lot of people have asked me, "Hwaygo, whats the difference between physical resistance and armor?".

In actual fact armor works a lot differently in Diablo 3 than it does in almost every other RPG game, so I thought I'd make a video about how these defensive stats work.


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There are a few things I have left out for the purposes of keeping this video as simple as possible. (explaining effective health, and how the EHP bonus from DR is linear)

[Dorjan]

Very cool vid! +1

[Hwaygo]

Very cool vid! +1

Thanks Dorjan! Glad you liked it!

[Zog Varnoka]

Really nice vid man. Armor/AR interaction is one of the things I have been wondering about. I didn't realize that armor reduced ALL incoming damage. I thought it was like other games were it only affected physical. Thanks for posting this here. XD

[krischan]

I still catch myself at not taking care of the armor rating, but only on affixes, probably a bad habit from D2 times.

I for myself prefer written texts for these issues, but that's probably a matter of taste. However, it's a fact that the search function doesn't work as well on videos as on texts

[DeeJayeS]

how does "reduces" damage from elites" play into the equation? thanks

[Hwaygo]

how does "reduces" damage from elites" play into the equation? thanks

Thats a good question! haha Will have to do some further study.