| To be your sole armor spec, [Armor Reinforcment] would have to be reliable enough that you could actually make the decision, "Nah, I won't chomp herbs; it probably won't cause a problem." I'd argue that happens at a minimum of 80% proc rate: at that point, you have about a 50/50 chance of stacking minors after 3 tries. Before that, I would just heal the wound, and why am I bothering to use Armor Reinforcement if my default is to spend 3-9 seconds healing minors after a combat? |
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| For it to compete with the popularity of Armor Support, you'd probably want it at a minimum proc of 90%. That's a 50/50 chance of a stack after 7 stacked hits. You're giving up loot to use Armor Reinforcement. Any replacement for that has to be damn good. It'd also make Sunfist Berserker with the "power through minors" sigil a great - and thematic, since lore puts giantmen as the historial berserkers - build. |
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| I'd consider making Reinforcement something like 30% + 3·Ranks·(Armor Group - 1)%. Flat 30% for robes, 33-45% for leathers, 36-65% for brig, 39-75% for chain, and 42-90% for plate. |
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| Also, I've never seen Reinforcement proc when I tried using it, so I'm either very imperceptive or it doesn't have a message when it procs. Could someone share the message to put on the wiki if it exists? If not, it should exist. |
I don't see myself migrating 160 armor points to see if this is worth using, especially because I think I already know the answer, and double-especially if the ARMOR unlearning timer kicks up to 25 hours+/point after 41 points migrated like it does for CMAN.
So someone with more faith in this or money/bps to burn on a migration point, feel free to report back.
