Originally Posted by thorin5
It's interesting that you mention the armor bonus talent. The fun thing that I was doing for our kill was bouncing my chains off of the tanks a majority of the time. Due to our positioning they'd be able to jump from the tank to almost any of the rest of the soak group quite easily and looking at our warrior tank's buff gains for the fight, he gained Ancestral Fortitude 12 times and Inspiration 5 times, so 255 seconds of uptime not counting the buffs getting refreshed and lasting longer than 15 seconds, our bear tank gained AF 16 times and Inspiration 7 times which is 345 seconds uptime(almost the entire fight). 25% armor is nothing to scoff at if you've got a warrior as one of your tanks, every bit helps especially when he gets Stomped. |
Well, from what I can tell a sufficiently geared warrior with Ironshield Potion on will have something like 22,000 armor (64.7% mitigation). With Ancestral/Inspiration up he has 27500ish armor (69.7% mitigation). This means the player is taking 30.3% damage from a hit instead of 35.3% damage from a hit... so the relative difference is that they take 35.3/30.3=1.165 or 16.5% more damage without the armor buff as with it.
I am not clear how the buff interacts with Stomp. It could add in after or at the same time as Stomp. That is, it could either make Stomp reduce total armor value to 75% of what it normally, is, or it could make Stomp reduce Armor value to 50*1.25=62.5% of what it normally is.
Stomped (no armor buff) = 48% mitigation
Stomped (if armor buff gives you 75% of normal) = 58% mitigation (without would be 21% more)
Stomped (if armor buff gives you 62.5% of normal) = 53.5% mitigation (without would be 11.5% more)
I'm seeing some healers in WWS with much higher crit than their gear apparently gives them... i.e. 20% crit when they're getting 9% from gear... so I'm wondering if guilds are composing/planning around this buff or not. I'm also curious, of course, which way the Stomp armor reduction works, if anyone knows. =)