Warframe Academia: Armor and Grineer Domination

"Academia" is back and now means there will be math/stats involved!

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[diegosmurillo]

you should make a video showing differences between having 0 corrosive projection, 1, 2, 3 and 4 so we realize how much is the difference between having them and not having them

[Acidicheartburn]

Great video! I've always understood how armor works in this game, but seeing the numbers is huge. Thanks!

[bluevenom]

Holy shit I always knew that armour was strong on the grineer, but to actually see it fooking hell.

[DeepInsideZettaiRyouiki]

Anyone ever noticed how Armour worked in old games? Armour takes damages while defending health as it gives damage reduction, as armour falls do to damage recived more damage is "transmited" to health or (in less advanced games) first armour need to be destroyed completly...
For warframe balance transition damage would be even better as - first damage is dealth to armour damaging it...the more armour is stripped from enemy the less damage it (this layer of reduction) recive while more damage is now dealth to health, so our shots first struggle with armour and then struggle with flesh. This would give us a window to deal damage to enemy while not completly strip him from defences leaving "this one it though" feeling as some of his reduction remains till death. Now armour works somewhat like in real life...and this time reality is good for game balance.

[VenomousBanshee]

You are half right. They should take more damage due to the weakness, but that only is affected if the status damage procs. The weakness and resistance do not affect raw damage shots.

[Sonsydemec]

Nerdframe! Love it, more of this please.

[flowersrneat]

great job, your videos are awesome as well as helpful

[IDislikeTheNewYoutube]

Great video man. But what IS armor? Is it literally just a percentage reduction to damage on health? Do damage types not matter? Armor defends against kinetic attacks the same as energy blasts, moa laser beams, trap beams, Eximus degeneration, poision procs, bleed procs?

[shanearmstrong]

So, this is as I'm watching, but shouldn't you just spec for Impact/Toxin/Corrosive to deal with both Corpus and Ferrite Armor units, with a secondary running Puncture/Radiation to deal with Alloy? Radiation and Puncture are the counters for the Alloy Armor on Heavy Grineer units, If I understand correctly, because one shreds a percentage of the value, and the other ignores it completely.

[SLeagueTBKing]

Just like Valkyer with Armour of 1200 its OP asf. stand up and take slaps like a baller but U know them Bombards at lvl 125 get too Nice with their gifts

[Crispycentre]

I have a question about using Dual Elements. Here you were using Corrosive and Blast, but Blast deal less damage against Ferrite Armour. So does that affect the damage output that Corrosive will do too or does it just affect the total damage?

[TroidHunter]

I have a question. For things that affect flesh of enemies (aka viral), how does that work through armor?
Could you help me figure out how something like viral works against a heavy gunner as compared to corrosive, and possibly why corrosive seems to generally be more effective even though they both apply a 75% damage increase? The armor doesn't resist viral, but corrosive is usually way more effective.

[diegosmurillo]

and yeah those grineer on high levels are scary as fuck. tons of hp, good powers and damage. ive been looking for a way to deal with them, and my closest best option is running boltace spin attack with cp channeled and combo damage

[IDislikeTheNewYoutube]

Also, if you had 4 party members running Corrosive P, does that mean that enemies have a negative percentage of armor? So multiplicatively more? Or are you capped at -100%?

[nyb]

AHHHH your ehp for the lvl. 50 Corpus Tech is 1 too much. Unless they have some 1ehp bonus from somewhere

[duoxm]

What is this room you're in? Want to see if I can get there on Xbox.

[collinsuperales]

i always thought bombards were tougher than gunners


are they?

[Tweepx]

So what would you say the best way to counter this would be ? (Melee / primary) what mods / weapons.

[xandermichael]

Okay am I missing something? My opticor one shots level 80 heavy gunners while running T4 keys? No CP needed either. Just pure damage.

[Epo]

This is why I don't pub sorties. The number of ES and RA aura mod using shitters in level 85-100 grineer eximus stronghold survival is insane. Doesn't help half of those are steel charge valkyrs who still manage to get downed.