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Yerff_Caasi's avatar
7 years ago

Sabine Armor Shred question

So, Sabine's Darksaber Slash inflicts the Armor Shred status effect. The description says: "-50% Defense per stack."

No matter how many times I hit the same enemy with the Darksaber, the Armor Shred icon doesn't change. With things like Plague, it gets a little number over it indicating how many stacks there are. So my question is this: is Armor Shred actually stacking? If so, how can I tell?
  • We have never really gotten an answer regarding that, the claim is that it stacks, like you read, however it has never shown an increase in the description, the On,y thing you can do currently is try watch the damage and see if it appears to increase a bit with multi hits of Armor shred
  • It definitely stacks. Hitting a normal opponent more than twice would be redundant though (or a raid boss with Fearsome Foe more than 4 times).

    I routinely run Sabine (under Ackbar lead, with hermit Yoda, Jawa engineer, and Princess Leia) in my STR P2 team (currently running tier 4)

    My Leia with masters training will crit Sion for Average 8k, then I start piling on armor shreds, first instance puts me to around 15k crits (by now she is also getting her internal stealth buffs) second to mid 20’s, third gets about 33k per crit. A fourth (or subsequent) hit(s)of armor shred only takes me to 36k crits, which I attribute to the fact that my Leia already has a base armor penetration of 124, and was already bypassing most of the remaining 25% of Sions armor.

    Feel free to try that team out too, it requires no zetas and minimal gear (hYoda g7, Sabine g8, engineer g10, and ackbar and Leia g11) And routinely nets me 2.6-3.2M in a run...
  • But, Sion also is inflicting pain, which increases Leias hits, so it doesn’t necessarily mean Armor shred is stacking in this instance, . . Might simply be the offense increase due to the pain debuff
  • The armor shred is multiplicative, not additive. So if you hit a normal enemy twice with it, it's -75% defense, not -100%.

    No, it doesn't give a counter on Armor Shred, but it definitely accumulates, and is especially notable against raid bosses. It's part of what makes Phoenix great against Sion.
  • I did forget to mention pain, with all the additional attacks she gets (both from multi-tapping on her own turns and from all the assist calls), Leia is usually fully stacked well before the 2nd armor shred is applied.
  • in t5, by the time my sabine gets 4 armor shredson scion, ezras basic is doing around 40k and his flourish is hitting 100k. I dont know many stacks of pain are on him by that point. depending how it all goes I'm usually in the 5mil-6mil range