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    Whats the use in armor?

    So if you have 1 or 1 million armor it does not matter because 1 bullet always removes all of it and most of your health. So whats the use? is it just a mechanic to say "I got more useless armor than you got" It's getting to be like playing World of Warcraft, the number gets bigger just for the E-peen aspect and not for the fun anymore. I know people have notice " i do 10 million sniper shot" who cares the mob has 200million health and his armor is almost invulnerable.
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    To give your unwise butt time to get back into cover! It has diminishing returns right now. Returning from WoNY I had only 187k(ish) armour and I was getting one shot by passing detritous, but bumping that up to 800k stopped that immediately and meant that I could take a few shots and make it back into cover. Even at 800+k you won't have long to survive if you're exposed to fire. Builds with 1.5-2m have a bit longer when out of cover or exposed to fire to get back into cover or to pull some counterplay off.
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    Originally Posted by RichardOshea Go to original post
    To give your unwise butt time to get back into cover!.
    This. Lots of people seem to assume armour will allow them to run around tanking damage, but it's just there to protect you for the brief moments you're not behind cover. If you're in a fight the only time you should be out of cover is when you're moving to more cover; 800K seems to be about the sweet spot for me, with a couple of buffs to armour recovery so I can refill it quickly before moving again.
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    If i group up with someone with 650k armor he/she is going to be a revive magnet, If i group up with someone with 850k armor he/she is going to be less problematic.....the amount of times i have died due to low armoured players being revived is unreal.....i don't revive anymore, eat dust mofo
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    Think the issue for many a player is how you could just run around without a care in the world and face tank to your hearts desire before. Now they've flipped it to the other end of the spectrum where you need cover, a lot of people dont know what to do as they're not used to using cover.
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    Originally Posted by Riflemania Go to original post
    If i group up with someone with 650k armor he/she is going to be a revive magnet, If i group up with someone with 850k armor he/she is going to be less problematic.....the amount of times i have died due to low armoured players being revived is unreal.....i don't revive anymore, eat dust mofo
    not really... all dps builds have low armor.i have 700k going all red 60 ch 140 cd.i drop mobs before they fire
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    Originally Posted by HonestlyOK1986 Go to original post
    Think the issue for many a player is how you could just run around without a care in the world and face tank to your hearts desire before. Now they've flipped it to the other end of the spectrum where you need cover, a lot of people dont know what to do as they're not used to using cover.
    That is not the issue at all and I wish some of you would quit spouting off the same tired rhetoric that you are just reading from other posters with no basis of fact whatsoever. The problem is that I can take the same amount of damage with 600k of armor that I can with 1 million armor. That means I have reconfigured my build to be all reds. Now that works fine, but now EVERYONE is doing the same thing. There is no build diversity now and don't come on here arguing with me because I do hours and hours of challenging missions with Randoms so I play with a lot of other people every day. If we want to have true teamwork it requires build diversity and thats not happening right now. Thats why people are complaining. Doesn't have a damn thing to do with play style and for the record I am one of the chief complainers and I NEVER play face tank. Not even back in D1 days. Now once and for all quit saying this.
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    Originally Posted by Im4Givn Go to original post
    now EVERYONE is doing the same thing
    No they aren't. I'm not, and it seems most of the other posters in this thread aren't either. It's not tired rhetoric I'm reading from other posters and repeating without checking. I literally am not running all reds, no one in my clan is running all reds, and the only people who are running all reds seem to be the same people who are yelling repeatedly that armour is useless. Those of us who have armour have it because it's helping us. It may not help you, but that's not the same as "armour is useless, no-one is using it", it just means your play style must be very different to mine..
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    Originally Posted by NimtaK2 Go to original post
    not really... all dps builds have low armor.i have 700k going all red 60 ch 140 cd.i drop mobs before they fire
    I should of also said what difficulty and platform.
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    Well this is how long 1.2 mil armour lasts if you try to facetank a heavy Elite tank with a minigun


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzB9O8CgXU
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