Diablo 4 - Why You Need Armor And How It Works!

#Diablo4 #Armor #Mechanics

In this video I present how Armor works in Diablo 4 and why it is quintessential to survive in high-end content; there are a few specific breakpoints you should be aware of, specifically versus Level 100+ Enemies. Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:32 Resistances
03:40 How Armor works
05:20 The Armor Cap
08:32 Field Testing
10:48 How to survive high end Dungeons
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[BeetlebombD]

One of your best videos yet. Shows a detailed explanation followed by live examples and comparisons-- makes it super easy to understand! Thank you

[MathewCrichton]

Thank you! A handy rule of thumb I picked up from this and a few other similar vids: You'll need ~9.2k armor to hit the cap against lvl 100 enemies (NM Tier 46), and you'll need ~13.3k armor to hit the cap against lvl 154 enemies (NM Tier 100). As you work your way up NM tiers, scale up your armor a reasonable amount between the two to stay in a comfortably tanky zone.

[JustBelovedYT]

Diablo 4 - Why you need to like the video and how it works:

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[petersonpierre]

This explains why I keep getting one shot when I push NM dungeons! That you so much for the comprehensive video!

[medicatedmermaid]

I needed this this! Thank you. I’m running around at lvl 100 with 7394 armor and doing “ok”. Solo killed all the bosses, but nightmare dungeons at 75 and above have been tough. I’m running Disobedience with stacks to 60%, but didn’t know why sometimes I could take a hit and other times get a one-shot kill to my dude. Now I know why!

[Weggsi]

hardest part to choose when u find new 920 gear with bigger armor but old armor was with more Damage reduction from ranged etc

[ryanba]

Thank you for this. Been struggling in higher nm dungeons and not understanding why.

[Lascael]

Hi, thank you for the explanation about how armor calculation is done.
But what about damage reduction?
Does it apply before or after armor calculation and does it apply on the total damages you take?

[cmecu_seemeseeyou]

Yo continue to amaze with your information. Thank you for taking the time to grind the numbers and research for us. Especially those of us who dont have enough time to figure stuff out on our own. Make it much easier to have someoen else explain :D

[Recreation]

Great summary, thanks so much. On my barb rend build im adding thorns to surrounding enemies and disobedience stacks instantly!

[bossi]

Literally changed the game for me. Thank you!

[JemuzuKICK]

My favorite part of this video is the timing where he says "you don't have to get one shot from off screen by a crossbow" as his rogue literally almost gets one shot by a crossbow from off screen.

[noveenia]

Very useful to know the cap number! Thanks!

[_sleepyFox-ohob]

This type of information is super valuable for all players. I'm a HC exclusive player in all games that have it (always have been). Most all other videos just cry damage damage damage damage, but none of them are Hardcore players.

Unless you're building for HC endgame (even in soft-core), you're running a gimmick build exploiting one thing and ironically, eventually get one-shot.

Anyway, thanks for this... seems like they to model defenses after PoE's system to a large degree.

[MattiasTheGamer]

You made this very clear! Thanks for educational content like this with examples, because D4 itself doesn't do a very good job educating its players 😅

[johnmichaelarnaud]

Everyone is referencing this now. This is foundational stuff. I have 13.4K armor via Total Armor While in Werewolf Form, so now I know I can dump Disobedience for Vigorous. Thank you for all your research!

[stevenmielke]

Trying Necro for the first time this season and running a minion, deathspeaker pendant, thorn build I've thrown together and having fun with it. This gives me great info to help build towards (my dude's usually in the mix with the skelly party) so thank you very much.

[axiishogum]

Very clear, you should to do another one about how the damage reduction works because it's another very misunderstanding topic :D

[DeppTDi]

thats probably the best video ive come across d4, thank you very helpful

[RichardHaila-gepl]

I didn’t read all of the comments but the resistances attached to amulet and rings has break points related to item power, so you want at least I believe 900 or above item power on those in order to obtain the most resistance out of them as possible.