Early Access Feedback - Is there no hope for life/armour builds? - เว็บบอร์ด

I heard it referred to as though armour doesn't protect from big hits because it's like a mountain being dropped on you. What good would armour do? Also in the same sense, we output enough damage to wipe out that mountain, so understandably it's confusing why you can't also take a hit from it. It just feels bad when the bar for how much armour you need keeps getting pushed up. Worse yet, another required stat has been added that we also need to max out(armour applies to elemental).	โพสต์โดย mikeab79#3627 เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 13:44:55 ตอบโพสนี้
armor in POE kinda like armor in real life it works good for small calibers, they can shoot entire mag at you and nothing happens but it won't do jack against a single .50 BMG from Barrett M82A1. You need to commit to it for it to have any effect in protecting against big hits (oneshots). Also it would help if resistance applied first (in case of elemental damage mod)	โพสต์โดย Esubane#6099 เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 14:16:10 ตอบโพสนี้
" stalkingjackal#2441 เขียน: I'm running a 300 div build with 5.2k life, 35k armour and ~120% armour applies to ele damage. I have ~12000 hp/sec recovery from time of need and also I'm crit immune from brass dome. Yet something like the pillars of light from Geonor in iron citadel (blue map with no damage modifier) 1 shots me through all those defences. GGG you still don't see the absurdity in that? This problem is plaguing the game since the very beginning, and nothing has been done to fix this. I can get 12k es for half that investment and be able to tank all 1 shots. there are viable - just buy kaom and 50% increase life base on life-leech and hp regen afixes you don't even need resistances as they are removed from calculation (not capped at 0 - removed) so it makes you immune to all "penetatrions", ele curses, and so on - while you still can stack armour to ele which works แก้ไขล่าสุดโดย saashaa#5518 เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 14:45:37	โพสต์โดย saashaa#5518 เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 14:44:59 ตอบโพสนี้
" saashaa#5518 เขียน: " stalkingjackal#2441 เขียน: I'm running a 300 div build with 5.2k life, 35k armour and ~120% armour applies to ele damage. I have ~12000 hp/sec recovery from time of need and also I'm crit immune from brass dome. Yet something like the pillars of light from Geonor in iron citadel (blue map with no damage modifier) 1 shots me through all those defences. GGG you still don't see the absurdity in that? This problem is plaguing the game since the very beginning, and nothing has been done to fix this. I can get 12k es for half that investment and be able to tank all 1 shots. there are viable - just buy kaom and 50% increase life base on life-leech and hp regen afixes Yeah, I was curious and looked at HC characters on poe2.ninja. There are high-level life/armor builds, but they all use fancy tech (like Kaom's). OP, take a look at these characters: https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaalhc?sort=life 0.4 SSF: Thunderstorm and Minions, work in progress: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/DistributedAutomaton-5739/character/CrystalController 0.3 SSF: Evasion-only melee challenge character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/119e9	โพสต์โดย DistributedAutomaton#5739 เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 14:50:22 ตอบโพสนี้
im not 100% on this but im sure MArk mentioned in a live streeam that the players armour can aslo break abut like you do with the enemy where once it does ur naked essencially i mgith be wrong o nthis but im almost sure that what he said about Armour if it is and it breaks then ur ele res mitigation would also be effect by this right? ..... make ur wonder	โพสต์โดย WarhawkOfficial#9280 เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2026 15:11:39 ตอบโพสนี้