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[Armor Penetration] Is armor pen really worth it?
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Zalambar
For one thing boss armor was reduced from 13083 to 10643 in patch 3.1. Let's see how useful armor penetration is based on that.
Suppose you have a boss with 10643 armor and 30% is removed by other player's abilities. The boss then has 7450 armor giving a 32.84% damage reduction. If you could gain exactly 1% armor penetration that would reduce their effective armor to 7375.5 which gives a 32.62% damage reduction.
Let's measure damage done as a percentage of your maximum theoretical dps. So 1% armor penetration allows you to deal 0.22% of your maximum possible damage. As long as you are below the hit cap 1% extra hit would allow you to deal an extra 1% of your max damage.
Per percentage point hit is clearly a larger dps increase than armor penetration. However you need 32.79 hit rating to get that +1% hit and only 12.31 armor penetration rating to get +1% armor pen so 1 armor pen rating is really worth about 0.59 hit rating.
But wait! That's only for your first 1% armor pen. Going from 0 to 1% armor pen gave you an extra 0.22% of your maximum damage but going from 19% armor pen to 20% give you another 0.25% damage and from 29 to 30% armor pen gives you another 0.27%.
Until you are hit capped +hit is always going to be more valuable than +armor pen but comparing armor pen to other stats can get tricky.
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I'd love to see the maths involved in making 4x5 into 25
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You can go past 100% ArP, so this thread is irrelevant. If they've changed this back to the cap, please link where it's confirmed.
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