You Need New Armor! FORTIFY Nerfs Explained! Shirking Fortification Or Elemental Aversion? New World

Fortify is receiving significant nerfs next New World patch, making it scale with armor and therefore being significantly weaker on light and medium equip loads. But how much weaker is Fortify really? Is Shirking Fortification still worth using in heavy armor? And how does it compare to Elemental Aversion? In this video, we're diving deep into the New World Season 1 Fortify changes and try to answer all of the above questions.
Thanks to X-R for the calculations: www.twitch.tv/xr3f
00:00 - Fortify nerf explained
00:54 - 20% Fortify
03:55 - 50% Fortify
04:33 - 100% Fortify
04:53 - 200% Fortify
05:24 - 50% Fortify + 50% Damage Reduction
06:06 - Shirking Fortification vs Elemental Aversion
08:07 - New BiS Loadout?
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[@DukeSloth]

X-R got some messages asking why BDLG's results on PTR are so different. In his video, the attacker isn't wearing any armor. Due to the changes to gear score scaling in this patch, that drastically changes the damage output of the attacker and skews the result. I want to emphasize that this is a new change on this very PTR and there's no way BDLG could've known this. For years, the method of testing without the attacker wearing armor was actually the most reliable way to get consistent results.

[@DIsturbios1234]

BDLG is just a bad math clickbaiter. Youre the GOAT

[@mellowoutt500]

Hey Duke - so - I am testing for next patch. Full Ele Aversion - all onyx. Or a Melee puts in a conversion gem - I take full damage from that 50% conversion. No mitigation. How can we deal with this as light armor?

[@OLLIE360ification]

hey, just checking your numbers and you put x5 elemental aversion as 25% damage reduction, when 3.9% x5 is 19% soo one of your tables needs looking at, also if everyone is running conversion gems on melee surely we will go back to shirking fort meta?

[@matthopkins1107]

What would we do without you and X-R.. appreciate y’all and the new world community does too

[@kristiyankamenov]

Great info. Thanks for sticking around. Would like to see new crit explained and also is it worth to have keen/awareness/ and resilient

[@zargisan9017]

I second this

[@kurtdha]

I third this.

[@zvnholy3396]

I forth this

[@vmurc8732]

5th

[@DIsturbios1234]

Old crit: weapon with 10% crit base and an addition 15% from equipment: 25% crit chance > do not crit > game adds 25% crit chance for a total of 50% > and so on until you crit New crit: Weapon with 10% crit base and an additional 15% from equipment: 25% crit chance > do not crit > Game adds 10% crit chance for a total of 35% > and so on until you crit This basically means weapons that have a higher base crit are more likely to crit while weapons with lower crit base shouldn't build crit.

[@MarcosPic1982]

I don't understand this video. Does this mean that shirking fortification is not good for light but good for heavy armor or generally is not good anymore for any armor and better pick other perks?

[@anemoney9625]

I have something to test. Now that medium gets +10% freedom and heavy gets +20% freedom, if you have 5/5 freedom on armor… do they stack or does it cap at 50%?

[@OlegC3D]

hey Duke.. but won't everyone get destroyed by mutator elements if we remove the elemental gems?.... the "Elemental Aversion" specifically states 'You take 3.9% less damage from RANGED ELEMENTAL ATTACKS' ... am i missing something here?

[@erhan9805]

great info , thx mate. Can you also test the new crit dmg vs live crit dmg ?

[@Surxe]

basedmg are a good chunk of ability tree passives, as well as some perks like enchanted OLD: (1 + empower + critdmg)(1 + basedmg) NEW: (1 + empower)(1 + basedmg + critdmg) Assuming your empower = the same as basedmg, then your damage on a crit won't change at all. If your empower is higher than your basedmg (this is true in most weapon's cases), then your damage on a crit will be higher too, which is a very, very, slight buff to critdmg. Recall though that critical chance was nerfed heavily, nerfing critical damage heavily.

[@erhan9805]

@@Surxe so for example with the great sword i ll see less crits but higher numbers right?

[@Surxe]

@@erhan9805 yeah pretty much

[@irondisciple2984]

​@@Surxe what about the void gauntlet which is crit dependent for perks to function.

[@Surxe]

@@irondisciple2984 only the change to crit chance affects the tree synergy, crit dmg is just plain bigger numbers.

[@MrBalrogos]

Can u show values for SnS fortify? for Light Load with Round shield and heavy with tower shield? Defiant Stance(50%DR) + FSH(33%DR)+Sacred Ground (10%) = Total 93% DR ok thx i see numbers now for 100% fortify.

[@Preeebs]

Have resilient been changed aswel? Or is it still mandatory with 5 pieces?

[@TelevisionWarrior]

Excellent video! Glad to have people like you apart of the community:)

[@LilAlbus]

Does Aversion work on blunderbuss attacks? Also is shirking heals close to aversion in mitigation now?

[@r3load403]

since blunerbuss abilities inflict burn, it does.

[@mathieuszymanski2674]

Thank you ! is penetrating backstab better now so ?

[@Eas_the_Planeswalker]

Fortification changes aside; take a look at the different weights. Why would anyone play heavy over medium?

[@MrPonthi]

great video. would have loved to see the formula for the damage calculation

[@EndlessApocalypse]

does elemental aversion reduce dmg from muskets splitting into an element? and dot dmg from ranged atks? I've assumed so havent tested appreciate the details!

[@halfik83]

yes it does

[@nokomoko8832]

barely, i have 4 ele aversion and i can't really feel much of a difference, still getting 3 shot by well geared muskets or fire staffs

[@alfonsoalvarez3174]

@@nokomoko8832 maybe you dont have enough resilients

[@nokomoko8832]

@@alfonsoalvarez3174 i have 5 resil 4 ele aversion 1 shirking energy. and to be fair i run 50 con so having ele aversion is probably useless on me anyway, not much of a difference if someone can hit me for 3k with aversin or 4k without when i have 8.5k health anyway

[@alfonsoalvarez3174]

@@nokomoko8832 maybe withouth the ele aversion + resilient, you would get 1 shotted

[@shroombabyproduction]

I don’t understand the fine details but is this a buff or nerf to tanks?

[@vortexftwiner]

great video! Thinking purely about defense, a piece with resilient, elemental aversion and conditioning will likely give the best possible elemental protection. being able to put full onix.

[@Chris____.]

So full Fortify Light armor set in Live servers is better than a Heavy set (nearly same mitigation but you have insane mobility to dodge/escape), and people say its not OP 💀 There's a reason I have more fun being Unkillable with my 300con Light build, than 300con Heavy build with a pocket Healer.

[@propersod2390]

How is it better? You mitigate more damage but you're mitigating a number that's twice or 3 times higher 😂 heavy armor players will take 1k or less damage from things on average while light armor takes 2-3k

[@scuum4328]

The 250 armor scraps(craft mod) are looking very nice in my storage.

[@mrbicboi2540]

how much they going for on your server? they boomed to 500each after this vid and now they back down to 20g. I think this mod is just too easy to come by to be able to hold any real value like squirming

[@atlasfishmo]

The information I have been waiting for. Awesome work man.

[@Naquz]

Best Man here, Atlas the King

[@zeicro]

do you know if elemental aversion works vs fireball/ abilitys in PTR?

[@alfonsoalvarez3174]

ask yourself, is it an elemental ranged attack?? O_o

[@BeaverSlapper]

@@alfonsoalvarez3174 That doesn't mean that it actually works though. At one point either ele or phys aversion was broken and didn't stack.

[@zeicro]

@@alfonsoalvarez3174 XD You don't Even play the Game right?

[@alfonsoalvarez3174]

@@zeicro 4.5k hours as bruiser, sorry im not a dex rat

[@alfonsoalvarez3174]

@@BeaverSlapper they are supposed to work that way

[@pascaldota]

is this NA MATH ?? cause 15% fortif on light PTR give 2.76 % mitigation compare to 17.16 % on live ( no gem just taking armor in count )

[@bjornironside5229]

So I'm a heavy bruiser with 3 shirking fort. So what I'm gathering is it be better to remove fort and put Aversion? 🤔

[@Dudububu57]

Yes, it's not a flat dmg reduc anymore.

[@indigodragon4098]

What is this game called

[@cvld46]

What about crafting items with flame conditioning+elemental+resilient? Isnt that bis for the FS meta that is comming?

[@diogosantos4653]

FS will not be meta … do you know why ? Because people like you will be full elemental resist and you will be one shooted by bows … bow will be still the meta !

[@ArjKm]

meanwhile bow users just chilling thinking how fire staff looks like meta but its actually not lol

[@lamalas1]

What about Shrinking Heals perk ??

[@jn5350]

5 ele aversion is 20% reduction not 25%!!!!!

[@Neon-Lines]

little did everyone know FS even on PTR still isn't nearly as good as Bow, especially because of less i-frames (opposed to dex users)😅

[@ridmiIy]

When will they roll out this patch on live? anyone knows

[@Google_Censored_Commenter]

March 28th

[@UlfhednarTV]

XR on top! Thanks for the vid duke

[@MrBalrogos]

So they basicly Nerfing Great Sword Tanking.

[@diogosantos4653]

No point about using that much fire protection … or you will be a puppet for thrust users mainly with the loss of grit you will be constantly on the floor against spears, the melees out there need to understand that isn’t your job to deal with ranged unless you are an assassin … tanks and bruisers need to protect themselves against each other and expect the ranged from your team to deal with the other ranged … you must be fine cuz the healers always focus the mlob…

[@jamescrook9600]

Thanks Duke for the info again

[@d.garcia8592]

Weird, sounds like they just made the Christmas armor more valuable.

[@leodoesit]

i own 50 of each pattern😫

[@zach_zach5898]

But christmas armor doesn't have resilient though? It's not a PvP set. It's an ok luck set at best.

[@wuzzs]

Are you telling me that tanks will actually be tanks in clamps?

[@thecombatcactus4254]

Great content as always.

[@brentdavis504]

I'm even more confused now. I see videos with wildly different numbers.

[@NorthernLivinInTheMitten]

Playing this game for 3 months and becoming confused at the unnecessary complexity of this game again is discouraging... there are wayyyyy too many hidden scaling attributes and percentages. Upgrading an item from 600-625 only provides 1 attribute point visually. Why Amazon... why? They need to wake up and fix obvious issues that people are frustrated and confused on. Simple ideas can make a big change for this game. They're changing all of these perks/attribute perks so now is the time they may as well simplify some shit, especially for new players. Not much to lose when this game is unfortunately continuing on its path downhill. Frustrating to see a game that you enjoy and hope the best for, continually fall apart... even in the short 3 months of playing.

[@LumaTr1xx]

I think Shirking Heals might be a good replacement for Shirking Fortification

[@billfordbreezy]

I was thinking about the same thing. You’d really want to run divine that as well. I was thinking at least 3 SH pieces. But the other 2 maybe ele aversion freedom resil

[@alfonsoalvarez3174]

you wish, but your free pvp track gear still on tier c meta...

[@billfordbreezy]

@@alfonsoalvarez3174 yeah the 5 second cool down really hurts SH and just the low %

[@01mert01]

shirking heals and shirking fort can be crafted under the same item, not same perk pool...

[@billfordbreezy]

@@01mert01 any idea if SH can be crafted with freedom? For perk buckets. Assuming it can.

[@ArjKm]

If I could understand this much maths, I would have been better at studies. Now m older also lol. New bis loadout part of your video doesnt clearly explain the summary. Anyone please give TLDR ??

[@stevesmith686]

TLDR uninstall the game.

[@mrbicboi2540]

Tldr use ele aversion instead of shirk fort for all loadouts. But I'm unsure if the data is wrong because he uses 25% aversion in the table but max is 20%?

[@hozebeast1]

So medium is still the far better choice, because it’s not significantly worse mitigation than heavy. So we went medium meta, to light meta, back to medium…

[@WessauR]

it started with heavy actually

[@hozebeast1]

@@WessauR I stand corrected. It’s been so long

[@mrbicboi2540]

I think equip loads will basically stay the same. I think rangers will still be light as the mobility for kiting is just far too good compared to medium (taking reduced dmg is good but avoiding dmg is just better). bruisers will still be med. tanks still heavy. healers still light (maybe some niche small scale arenas going medium). Maybe the only changes will be to mages or assassins going medium instead of light.

[@mrbicboi2540]

Yep - equip loads stayed the same lol

[@MrBalrogos]

I wonder why they didint FIX the BUG on SnS becouse Defiant stance 50% Damage Reduction Never workls toward DR cap so you can use Defiant Stance(50%DR) + FSH(33%DR)+Sacred Ground 10% some wards and what 99.98% Dmg reduction on SnS

[@dellarosa1279]

Thats not how DR works. It is not a fortify, and is calculated multiplicative, not additive. This means in ur example u would first have 33%+10% absorb, then on the leftover dmg u get 50% from DR. This is on live. On ptr the fortify part is much weaker, but I assume the DR part still is the same since DR is not fortify. So DR will be even more important

[@mikemike6182]

AGS said they wanna make heavy more viable, now bruiser is dead, nobody gonna stand in opr taking all fire damage They need to increase new fortify % value for heavy, for example 50% fortify x armor rating = armor rating gained, 50% fortify x 2200 = 1100 extra armor can someone raise this issue on forum?

[@johndiaz1963]

Delete musket. The new changes are overkill. *I don’t play musket The also need to nerf BB, FS, AND THE PERFORATE. Weaken +Fort+rend is excessive

[@FearLegion-co8gg]

Delete firestaff, this isnt hogwarts legacy.

[@johndiaz1963]

@@FearLegion-co8gg its not call of duty either. You missed the point.

[@FearLegion-co8gg]

@@johndiaz1963 i was being facetious toward your comment of saying delete musket. In my, and many other players opinion the musket is the only fun thing about the game. To fix the musket all they had to do was slow the fire rate a bit and nerf mortal empowerment. The entire idea of applying bloom to any weapon is ridiculous. Also, in all honestly fortify should have never been a thing at all in pvp. Tank meta is not fun for anyone at all.. AGS seems to want us all to run around with 500 con, hatchet/GA or 300 Con heavy firestaff/BB and everyone else swings pool noodles and shoots nerf darts that miss 90% of the time.

[@ArturHawkwing351]

The real takeaway is to quit. Rebalancing adds no value to the game and will trigger people to regear - cool, no thanks.

[@marcnebot5669]

This table are pretty fake, with 15 fortify in light u have 2,76% in PTR. U really did the good maths?

[@johnweig4667]

I really like the change. It just does nerf shirking fortification which was needed! But you can still play it.

[@fenidokh8876]

I think so X-R did a mistakes in his math...

[@Spilityz]

I believe reason they buff heavy on fort I think it cuz of $$$$ heavy with fort cost gold cap ++

[@planetg2125]

Been running ele aversion over shirking fort for 2 months and it is insanely better in the current meta.

[@Izahhtv]

Muito bom

[@LootShrimp]

Once again as per usual, catering to casuals.

[@commandershepard4211]

doesnt matter, dead game with no future

[@platon38]

no shit, they need 1000 armors for every kind of npc in the game, this is so stupid, and lot of friends leave the game because of this silly shit, apologies, but i uninstall the game for this little reason, FF14 is far better

[@Eidorian510]

TAKE THE VIDEO DOWN I NEED TO BUY ALL MY ELE AVERSE FOR CHEAP

[@FearLegion-co8gg]

To be fair we knew they were going to nuke fortify for like 3 months now. Many of us have been collecting resil, ele aversion, refreshing pieces for a while. Shirking heals from the track is also good.

[@eytbits]

OPR will become a CoD match. Everyone will just use guns.

[@Ax-xN]

When is the season launching can't wait for the light weight dps idiots to get nerfed lol