Tank the monkey in cruel act3 at level 46 | Melee hardcore build showcase 6ex budget

[@BetaTestCoin]

I'm usually a SSFHC speedrun player and the furthest I've ever reached was about end of act 3 in normal. But I wanted to test my theory on armour with 2 key uniques, and before farming like a maniac in SSF I wanted to know how it would do so I made a character in hardcore trade league, finished deathless to maps in about 10-12hours using these two uniques, I limit tested pretty much everything in campaign and can facetank everything. I'm pretty sure this build can reach around 9-10k life with 25k armour and like 80K when getting crit even more possibly. I'm sure it can tank everything in the game based on armour, just need some chaos res late game obviously, to be proven though. I could tank the hammer of the god (executioner act1 cruel) twice without dying same with two monkey slam approx. STRONG AF, ARMOUR OP, now stop crying guys

[@SmyleTran]

He isn't wrong, what was clarified is that armor is supposed to apply after resistance, but it's in fact, calculated first, before resistances. So mitigation isn't properly functioning on armor. Same as running heat proof/cloak of flame setups. Also as mentioned in the other comment, campaign is low scaling. Tier15-18 maps hit different.

[@BetaTestCoin]

he is not wrong about armour being bad for big hits, but he is wrong for thinking armour based character can't live big hits

[@SmyleTran]

@BetaTestCoin he did mention recently that getting to 30k armor would be ideal, but there's so much random things going on late game that can easily kill armor. Hopefully they assist in the update on boosting armor mechanic

[@Diediepxl]

Brother what are on about? In campaign it's not that bad, cus in campaign monsters doesn't hit that hard. Problem is in the endgame where the damage starts to scale really high and that's when armor start to get useless. Your little experiment can only proves what Kripp said in the video already if you'd watch it which I suspect not...nice try anyways. Try harder.

[@BetaTestCoin]

you can get up to like 13k-14k hp with this setup so yes you can tank everything in late game, even with 0 armor you can take everything that is a single hit