Sometimes you're going to hit environments where you can't avoid ambient poison, or enemies who hit with a certain elemental typing. This is the big one that hasn't been mentioned yet. In NG+ playthroughs, this stuff can become CRUCIAL, as micromanagement of your armor for specific situations can determine the differences between living and dying. Those can become very important to use when in situations where you need to use them (spoiler: lots of curse shit to deal with in the Grand Archives if you don't have your head covered in wax). The proc resistances are for things like bleed, curse, poison, etc. Beyond that, they will have varying degrees of elemental resistance (magic, fire, lightning, dark, etc). Heavy armor can give high stat increases towards overall physical damage, but then that can be broken down to specific types of attacks (strike, thrust, and slash).

Higher than 20% and the calculation gets weird and it's not entirely certain if you're going to start seeing diminishing returns, but it's probably not going to be needed higher than that either way.Īrmor can not only offer increased survivability against physical attacks, but also against specific types of damage as well as elemental resistances and proc resistances. The way it's calculated, you want to get about 20% absorption with high vitality and strength for the most effective defence. Typically, heavier armour will have higher absorption - which is protection against strong/heavy attacks. The difference comes from Damage Absorption. This also means that if you get hit by a dude with a sword/dagger/light weapon, you're going to take the same amount of damage regardless of which armour you're wearing, too. The primary stat is a flat bonus to your physical defence - this is given to you regardless of what type of armour you're wearing (whether it's a cloth robe or plate metal) so it's best to have something equipped in all 4 slots at all times, otherwise you're going to be taking a flat % damage increase. There's 2 different types of defence stat from armour in DS3.

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