Hi Devs, my question is how exactly does guardian fortification work against armour penetrations?
Let's assume the following (these are NOT actual numbers):
Armour Value 100,000 = 60% armour mitigation
tier 1 = no armour penetration. At armour value 100,000 = 60% mitigation no extra damage is incurred.
tier 2 = 10% armour penetration. Character panel still shows armour value at 100,000 but we are taking 10% more damage. It's as if our mitigations are at 50%.
tier 3 - 5 = 20% armour penetration. Character panel still shows armour value at 100,000 but we take 20% more damage. It's as if our mitigations are at 40%.
Overcap:
tier 1 = no amount of armour value over 100, 000 (60%) needed.
tier 2 = you'll need an armour value of 110,000 and over for t2 armour penetration not to affect you. At t2 110,000 = 60%
tier 3 = you'll need an armour value of 120,000 and over for t3 -t5 armour penetration not to affect you. At t3-t5 120,000 = 60%
The formula above is simple enough to understand but throw in guardian FORIFICATIONS vs ARMOUR PENETRATION and things get a little muddy for me. Lets say the guardian's mitigations are at 60% (heavy armour limit) and then build's up his fortifications up to 5, 5 represents + 10% mitigations, so now his total mitigations are at 70%. So here are my questions:
How does fortifications work against armour penetration?
1. Does fortification just add an additional 10% mitigation?, for example: at 100,000 armour value we don't need to overcap for a t2 raid armour penetration debuff because the 10% that comes from fortification compensates for it and we don't suffer any additional damage from armour penetration at t2? OR
2. Do we still need to overcap for t2 armour penetration debuff despite the fact that our character panel is showing we have 70% mititgations (the 70% includes Fortification) but our actual armour value is still at 100,000? And do we take extra damage because our armour value is 100,000 in spite of the fact that our mitigations are showing 70? OR
3. Does our fortifictions give us 70% mitigations regardless of any armour penetration at any tier?
Sorry, I hope this is not terribly confusing. I had trouble wording my thoughts into questions here.
Some clarification would be greatly appreciated, thanks.