Proof Armor has increased.

Maybe it is WAI? Noobshields?

I hope this is broken and they fix it. Just did first 3 nodes of GW and the lack of damage is hugely discernible. Arena matches yesterday down to the wire; I can't see the model being intended and if it is; Star Wars galaxy of yawn.

I like this armour thing lol my thermals are all % based so don't really bother me

"Tylanader17;603705" wrote:

"Zooey;603056" wrote:
Just fought a heavily modded Fives. He had 43% armor which raises effective hp vs physical damage by 75.4%. If this stays, Rebel and Droid squads are going to be heavily neutered in comparison to counter squads.

Actually high damage squads like droids might become meta as they would be able to take down a tanky team in under 5 minutes

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This really hurts droids because droids rely on a quick battle usually. JE has a large cooldown on his TM/crit up, so that large flurry of damage only occurs once usually. It is essential that they take out the highest DPS on the other side during that burst. This makes that much harder, especially if RG is there, as there is a smaller window to defeat anyone without him triggering.

Now, droids are still good, don't get me wrong. But this update didn't do them any favors.

"Zip0zilch;603656" wrote:

"Faroer;603641" wrote:


I thought the % change for armor meant that armor reduces incoming attacks by that %. So 30% armor would reduce a 10k attack by 3k, and a 20k attack by 6k. Am I reading the descriptions wrongly?

Me too!

Yes a % change to armor does reduce damage, but some of the confusion is around defence vs. Armor. Mods increase defence, +50% defence doesn't add 50% to armor, it adds 50% of your armor. i.e.- 20% armor, with 50% defence would be 30% armor.

The increase to armor makes defensive mods much more viable and useful on anyone with high armor.

"LastJedi;603686" wrote:
Maybe this confirms there is a bug? I have both these toons untouched. Just activated. They have the highest armor on my entire bench.

It might be still waiting to hear from @EA_Jesse

"EA_Jesse;602051" wrote:
@Gungnir75 could you send me these screenshots along with any data you have on this? This may be a bug since I am not aware of any changes to the characters or armor in this update.

Lvl 1, 0 Gear Cheif Nebit has 40% base armor

Just tried this with my level 1 anakin, he started out at 40% armor, at level 19 he was down to 13%

"Saraleb;603261" wrote:
Fives > everone else

Love it

Going off your logic then Daka > everyone else because Daka beats 5s

wait am i understanding this correctly? Increased armor is bad? Isn't higher armor a good thing since you receive less damage?

"Slewfoot;604225" wrote:
Just tried this with my level 1 anakin, he started out at 40% armor, at level 19 he was down to 13%

I think these stats are proof that it's a bug and not a feature. I'm guessing that a power function of some sort is used to calculate armor from defense, so that it doesn't scale linearly. Otherwise, if you stack defense on a toon, you'll start getting increasing returns. For example, 50% armor would be 2x effective hp, but 75% armor would be 4x EHP, and it stands to reason that more defense should translate to less armor as it got higher. Something in the update must of screwed with their function, and we're ending up with a parabola of sorts where we're seeing a dip in armor in the early levels but a significant increase in later levels.