Anyone tested HP vs Def for tanks?
15% hp or 15% def, which do you guys suppose holds em alive the longest, all secondary mod stats aside just talking about the type of mod bonus alone
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"Durrun;563684" wrote:
Idk my fives is sitting at 30k hp with 30% armor, true he's in all hp mods right now but can't help wondering what that armor dmg reduc would be with some maxed def mods, anyone know how much defence translates into armor stat?
Oops! I didn't see this before going to bed. Anyway, take the HP, leave the canoli. My 5s isn't developed enough to see that kind of armor, so I didn't look at him when I posted my original response. But it still holds unfortunately true--if you have 30% soak and slot 3 defense sets you're going to end up with 34.5% soak, which means you're taking roughly 5% less damage per hit (rounding up, even, because I'm good with patterns but bad with math). So if you got hit for 5000 damage you would take 250 less than you would without those mods...... By comparison, if your 5s has even just 20000hp without mods equipped, you're gaining 3000hp from the set bonuses.
3000hp is way better than 5% further damage reduction.
Long story short: Unless there's an update that reworks how defense is calculated and applied, don't bother trying to min-max it. Because whatever effort you put into boosting defense can just as easily and far more efficiently be applied to HP.
