Armor - Revision history

Ragnor: Added info on calculating damage mitigation, and removed a false entry from the examples.

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Added info on calculating damage mitigation, and removed a false entry from the examples.

Flux at 17:11, 6 February 2013

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Elly: added new paper doll

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 Higher Armor values make a clear difference in the damage taken. Some stats, all for a level 60 character vs. level 60 monsters:
 * 1987 Armor = 39.84% Damage Reduction
 * 3059 Armor = 50.49% Damage Reduction
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 As with [[resistances]] (which function very similarly) there are diminishing returns on the benefit from higher amounts of Armor. The first thousand points of Armor effect a damage reduction of about 25%, while moving from 4500 to 5500 only yields about 4.5% damage reduction. That 4.5% might be of huge importance to a high level character taking on a dozen enemies at once, but it's clearly a lot less of a total change than the first couple of thousand points of Armor provide.
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 [[File:Defense-vs-armor-beta1.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Armor vs. Defense compared with item bonuses. Shot from the [[Diablo III beta]].]]

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	As with [[resistances]] (which function very similarly) there are diminishing returns on the benefit from higher amounts of Armor. The first thousand points of Armor effect a damage reduction of about 25%, while moving from 4500 to 5500 only yields about 4.5% damage reduction. That 4.5% might be of huge importance to a high level character taking on a dozen enemies at once, but it's clearly a lot less of a total change than the first couple of thousand points of Armor provide.		As with [[resistances]] (which function very similarly) there are diminishing returns on the benefit from higher amounts of Armor. The first thousand points of Armor effect a damage reduction of about 25%, while moving from 4500 to 5500 only yields about 4.5% damage reduction. That 4.5% might be of huge importance to a high level character taking on a dozen enemies at once, but it's clearly a lot less of a total change than the first couple of thousand points of Armor provide.
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		+	==Strength==
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		+	The [[Strength]] attribute adds directly to the Armor total, in simple arithmetic fashion. More strength = higher Armor = more damage reduction. This is very handy for Barbarians and makes them take much less damage from melee combat. Other characters get less benefit from it; the screenshot below shows a [[Paragon]] 49 Monk who has virtually no Strength on her equipment and thus gains very little additional armor that way.
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-{{Template:Items navbox}}
+{{Template:Items navbox|basics}}
 [[Category:Basics]]
 [[Category:Items]]
 [[category:Armor]]

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 ** [[Orbs]] (Wizard only)
 ** [[Quivers]] (Demon Hunter only)
-* [[Pauldrons|Shoulder Armor]] -- New in Diablo III.
+* [[Pauldrons (item type)|Shoulder Armor]] -- New in Diablo III.
 * [[Bracers|Bracers]] -- New in in Diablo III.
 * [[Hands|Gloves]]

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-[[File:Paper-doll-aug2010.jpg|left|thumb|125px|Paper doll, Aug 2010.]]
+[[Image:Paper doll jan 12.jpg|left|thumb|250px|[[Paper doll]], Jan 2012.]]
 In Diablo III, "Armor" has two meanings. It can be a general term that refers to any type of non-weapon equipment worn by a player.  It is also a specific term, a number found on every piece of armor. Heavier armor has a much higher Armor number, which translates to less damage taken by the character wearing it. The benefits of Armor are similar to the benefits of higher [[Defense]], the attribute.
-As for armor in general, the equipment is quite changed from Diablo III. There are more types of armor and more slots on the [[paper doll], but fewer individual kinds of armor; D3 offers just 18 pieces of torso armor, compared to 45 in D2X. [[Armor dyes]], [[crafting]], [[socketing]], [[enchanting]], and many other features have also been added to extend the armor finding game.
+As for armor in general, the equipment is quite changed from Diablo III. There are more types of armor and more slots on the [[paper doll]], but fewer individual kinds of armor; D3 offers just 18 pieces of torso armor, compared to 45 in D2X. [[Armor dyes]], [[crafting]], [[socketing]], [[enchanting]], and many other features have also been added to extend the armor finding game.
 Almost every piece of armor looks very different when worn by each class, and some offer visual differences between male and female as well.
+{{Clear|left}}
 ==Armor Types==

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 ** [[Wizard Hats]] (Wizard only)
 * [[Chest Armor]]
-** [[Capes]] (Demon Hunter only)
+** [[Cloaks]] (Demon Hunter only)
 * [[Shields]]
 ** [[Mojos]] (Witch Doctor only)

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 ===Gear Sets===
-[[Gear sets]] are the term the [[D3 Team]] uses for the 18 different armor sets. These items look very different on each class, and Blizzard showed off six of them prior to Blizzcon 2010. They did not identify the precise number of any of the gear sets, or let us known if any of the classes were wearing the same sets, but they did say that these were all fairly low level sets, somewhere around 4-7, in the 1-18 scale from light cloth to the heaviest plate mail.
+[[Gear sets]] are the term the [[D3 Team]] uses for the 18 different armor sets. See the gear sets page for full details. A few sample sets, revealed by Blizzard prior to Blizzcon 2010, can be seen below.
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 ==Armor Ratings and Stats==
-The function of Armor is one of the bigger changes in Diablo III's combat engine. In Diablo II, higher armor/defense (the terms were interchangeable) meant a character was less likely to be hit by a physical attack. A D2 character with very high defense could stand in the midst of swinging enemies and hardly be struck at all. As a result of this design feature, the developers had to make monster hits do very high damage, so when one did land, it hurt enough to matter. This resulted in characters taking no damage most of the time, with occasional spikes of very high damage.
+The function of Armor is one of the bigger changes in Diablo III's [[combat]] engine. In Diablo II, higher armor/defense (the terms were interchangeable) meant a character was less likely to be hit by a physical attack. A D2 character with very high defense could stand in the midst of swinging enemies and hardly be struck at all. As a result of this design feature, the developers had to make monster hits do very high damage, so when one did land, it hurt enough to matter. This resulted in characters taking no damage most of the time, with occasional spikes of very high damage.
 In Diablo III, Armor does not reduce enemy to/hit. It reduces damage taken. Thus a D3 character with high armor will still get hit as often as a character with no armor; but each hit will cause much less damage. This, in theory, means that combat will result in a steady drain of hit points, which players must find ways to manage.
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-===Defense===
+{{template:buckler}}
-[[File:Buckler1.jpg|frame|Buckler, August 2010.]]
+Note that many characters may choose not to use shields, preferring two-handed weapons, dual-wielding weapons, or off hand offensive-boosting items like [[orbs]] and [[mojos]].
-===Blocking===
+Characters have resistances to [[fire]], [[cold]], [[arcane]], [[poison]], and [[lightning]] in Diablo III. There are other types of damage that can not be so directly resisted.
-One big difference is that Diablo III [[shields]] list a value for blocking. The buckler in the shot to the right lists 6-10 blocking. This seems to be how much of the incoming damage such a shield will absorb, on a successful block. This is a huge change from Diablo 2, where successful blocking (which was fairly easy to raise to the maximum of 75% with good equipment and points in dexterity) absorbed 100% of the incoming physical damage.
+This means that characters can always benefit from more resistance, rather than the value capping off at 75%. (Items that add to maximum possible resistance are not found in Diablo III.)
-This made a shield enormously useful for almost any melee character, far outweighing the lower damage dealt with a one-handed weapon. The Diablo III system seems likely to make two-handed weapons far more viable, if only because using a shield will not be such a huge defensive bonus.
+There is no global resistance penalty on the higher difficulty levels in Diablo III, a feature change that allows for more consistent, gradual difficulty changes. No more will characters enter [[Hell]] and find their resistances dropped to negative values. Characters will just find that they need more and more resistance to survive against more difficult enemies, in a more linear difficulty increase.
-See the shields page for more details.
+It is not known if any monsters have the ability to lower character resistances, but it seems likely. Nothing equivalent to Diablo 2's Conviction Aura has been seen as a [[boss modifier]] in Diablo 3, but such effects might appear at higher difficulty levels.
-===Resistances===
+{{Template:Wizard_Passive_Glass_Cannon}}

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 [[File:Paper-doll-aug2010.jpg|left|thumb|125px|Paper doll, Aug 2010.]]
-Armor in Diablo III is greatly-enhanced and improved on what was found in Diablo II. There are more types of armor, more varieties of each kind of armor, and much improved graphical representations of armor.
+In Diablo III, "Armor" has two meanings. It can be a general term that refers to any type of non-weapon equipment worn by a player.  It is also a specific term, a number found on every piece of armor. Heavier armor has a much higher Armor number, which translates to less damage taken by the character wearing it. The benefits of Armor are similar to the benefits of higher [[Defense]], the attribute.
-[[Armor dyes]], [[crafting]], [[socketing]], [[enchanting]], and many other features have also been added to extend the armor finding game.
+As for armor in general, the equipment is quite changed from Diablo III. There are more types of armor and more slots on the [[paper doll], but fewer individual kinds of armor; D3 offers just 18 pieces of torso armor, compared to 45 in D2X. [[Armor dyes]], [[crafting]], [[socketing]], [[enchanting]], and many other features have also been added to extend the armor finding game.
-Little is yet known about armor values or modifiers. Some items have been seen in early testing, but as the itemization balancing process takes place late in a game's development cycle, nothing in screenshots seen much before the beta begins should be taken too seriously.
+Almost every piece of armor looks very different when worn by each class, and some offer visual differences between male and female as well.
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 * [[Helms]]
 * [[Chest Armor]]
 * [[Shields]]
-* [[Shoulders|Shoulder Armor]] -- A new type of armor added in Diablo III.
+** [[Mojos]] (Witch Doctor only)
-* [[Wrists|Bracers]] -- A new type of forearm armor added in Diablo III.
+** [[Orbs]] (Wizard only)
 * [[Hands|Gloves]]
 * [[Belts]] -- These do not hold potions as in Diablo II. They're purely another piece of armor.
-* [[Pants]] -- A new type of armor added in Diablo III.
+** [[Mighty Belts]] (Barbarian only)
-* [[Feet|Boots]]
+* [[Pants]] -- New in Diablo III.
 * [[Rings]]
 * [[Amulets]]
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 ==Class-Specific Armor==
-Unlike the many [[Class-Specific Weapons]], armor in Diablo III is not limited by class. All classes can equip all types and quality levels of armor (with possibly some exceptions for shields). [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/bashiok-on-class-specific-items-part-two/]
+While the developers initially planned not to include class-specific armor types, that changed during game design.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/bashiok-on-class-specific-items-part-two/] As of the beta test, there are numerous types of armor that can only be equipped by one of the character classes.  The same goes for [[weapons]].
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 Above are the six gear sets Blizzard showed off pre-Blizzcon 2010. See the [[Gear Sets]] page for many more examples. This wiki will display detailed looks at all 18 gear sets for all five classes once the information is available.
 ==Armor Ratings and Stats==
-Little is known about how defense, blocking, resistance, and other defensive stats work in Diablo III.
+The function of Armor is one of the bigger changes in Diablo III's combat engine. In Diablo II, higher armor/defense (the terms were interchangeable) meant a character was less likely to be hit by a physical attack. A D2 character with very high defense could stand in the midst of swinging enemies and hardly be struck at all. As a result of this design feature, the developers had to make monster hits do very high damage, so when one did land, it hurt enough to matter. This resulted in characters taking no damage most of the time, with occasional spikes of very high damage.
 ===Defense===