Quote Originally Posted by Whirlzap View Post
Agh, triple post, but w/e.

Just to add on.

Armor means nothing to a nuke mage.

During sewers, bears had lower dodge, and they had really high armor as well.
Nuke mages like me didn't even have to heal much. As an Enchanted Staff Mage, a simple full-nuke combo as a bear would Beckon and drag me would end up taking most, if not all his HP.

Think of it this way.
Armor= a percentage of damage reduction, at around 50-60% for bears.
Dodge= 100% damage reduction.

At a lower extreme scale, armor works better than dodge.
At a higher extreme scale, dodge works exponentially better than armor.
You're not taking into consideration of regeneration and debuffs.

If you double armor now, bears will have over 500 armor. Weapon damage doesn't even reach to that yet, so how do you expect to "nuke" them?