5. I see Fortitude has a lot more gfg defense, like +30% less chance to be hit. Why isn't that better?
Answer: Well, although this is true, and although receiving less strikes means less likelihood to be interrupted / being thrown into FHR animations, this is only true regarding melee physical attacking / ranged physical attacking mobs. A quick look at an online bestiary will show you that the greatest majority of the game mobs throughout the acts constitute of magic/elemental damage mobs, and even those who melee attack have, for the most part, a magical/elemental attack as well. Knowing this, and taking life stealing into account, this factor is simply not worth relying on.

refer to line 4 of mine

"Yes fade does add more resistance when it taps but merc will die before it ever taps and the fortitude will add enough resistance to tank a conviction aura venom lord in chaos sanctuary"
fort is better vs melee and vs casters/elemental, because of the automatic 30 all res and not waiting on tap

and about FAQ #7

ofc its jsp/10


still imo fort>treach and ive used both

Fort > Treach

except for baal bots.

you forget opinions blew out the window when numeric proof became available.
whatever you choose to use is none of my concern, by all means, use a cracked breastplate for all I care.



refer to FAQ #7

bump

bum

no opinion on the debat yet, but this need an other presentation : it's a draft.
you rely everything on stats comparisons and there is no direct stats on the same page...
it's like : I see 40* bunch of maths under hammer & decrepyt and conclusion "30302 more dmgs than forty "!! how to check this ? Must scroll, then search, then recompute myself all datas..
treac vs forty
100 / 130 -> table, on same page, picture .. require a final digest table
explain some situations with text : 3 attacks vs 2 ..

your bumping your thread like if it was a perfect simple obvious & math demos everyone will agree at first sight...it's not

btw : if i read well, your conclusion mostly depends on
Special section: Hammerdin Concentration Aura SLevel 35 (PvM average- Calculations in regard will be coloured in blue from here on):+570% ED.
in no hammer blessing is < in almost all cases ? pretty confusing... reroll the guide to clarify all this

so you're looking for a dummies guide? the hardest thing here is multiplication, at best.

ps a lot of misconceive the blue parts as "relying on hammer's conc". it's not, it's 2 different computations.

agree. ive testet both armor 2.. with no fade. treshery is crap.sorry.but thats it.. forti vs treshery. ez forti..treshery loose every time.

try the merc vs each other and see..lol

This post was edited by MULTIQ on Jul 22 2011 03:26pm

like 99% of diablo 2 population have a brain, i think its exactly the opposite,

Also, treachery thingy has to get activated to compare to fortitude, and 5% max light res helps merc/you tank vs souls.

Every one of your reply posts in the last 3 months has said threshery threshery threshery...a bit wishy washy?