This effect is more noticeable with more than 45 starting HP. Having a set of armor (including a frying pan!) that provides a 35% DR (for body) means that usually (there are some primarily melee weapons that have a chance to totally ignore all armor) in your example instead of 30 damage you will receive only (30-5)*0.65 = 16 damage. LetsTPKothers: Am i missing something about armor guys? You are probably missing 'DamageResistance' (measured in %) which in fact is more useful that the meager DamageThreshold reduction. My character has been naked the entire play through.

I'm only about half to 3/4 through the game. So dodge is doing exactly what it is suppose to.Įven if i went with defense skills in my tree, it would still be drastically broken.Ītleast so far. Please tell me i am doing something wrong.ĭon't get me wrong I'm not saying to Nerf dodge, dodge is fine, I have high Dex, and dodge bonuses. So using armor instead of playing into dodge isnt even an option. With dodge i could survive 3-5 turns, three almost guaranteed. If a high end BP reduces damage by 5(at the cost of 18 dodge), i have 45 health, and the enemy is hitting for 30 damage a turn, i die in two turns no matter what with a ZERO% chance to dodge. Put simply, Crap + Crap = Festering crap, as is.

It just makes no sense to have armor reduce so little damage but then also massively reduce dodge. If Dex wasnt such a huge thing in Atom Rpg i would say just dump Dodge for armor reduction but being that you have no choice to use at least 8-10 dex at the start of your game or you wont be able to hit more than once (in melee case do decent damage or die), or even hit at all because Dex = melee hit chance and of course dodge. Every piece of armor has a huge negative to dodge / very little damage reduction.

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