Hi, is keenly fortified going to be nerf on next patch?
Yes. It will now scale your armor by the percent listed rather than make you resist that % of incoming damage.
Almost all fortifies are being changed in this manner.
Only sort of good news is that the cap is being removed. So you can get 150% fortify… which is muuuch less than 150% less damage .
This why most weapons saw some damage reduction.
thank you for the help.
correct
except I HEARD (havent tested yet) the cap is now 200%
Would be hard to test… can you get to 200% fort? Maybe with bb and healer and shirking fort and keen fort? Hmmm
theres a huge amount of available buffs, but I honestly dont know
i tested some builds. 2200 physical armor baseline. I got to 4980, but theres room for more
Sot hat a little over 100%, about 125%. But how much actual damage reduction does that pile of armor give you compared to what it was with only 50% fort cap?
I suppose if you put everything into fort you might get a little more dr than pre patch, but at what cost to other perks and skills and gear?
Yeah fort is bad now
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That sums it up succinctly
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i still gotta test, not enough decent gear in ptr
for light users, its not the best for sure
for medium, most likely the same
for heavy users and some specific weapons tho, the high cap may allow huge armor numbers. we gonna have to test it with proper gear/buffs
isn’t like keenly fortified was already a meme perk
as when you compare it to empower which is 15% and 5 second duration, keenly fortified with 10% and 3 second is just trollperk.
Yeah any source of fortify 10% or less will be removed from my build if possible. 10% armor is like 2% dr or less and is not even worth the buff when invigorated punishment is considered.
yeah, it should be renamed into “you take 2% more dmg for 3 seconds and you gain nothing from it” 
Well it would never be take the full 2% damage… on light you may actually take 1% more, medium .5% and heavy you may break even…
But I’m not selecting a gear perk or skill tree perk that gives me nothing… when I could pick anything else.
Problem is some of my gear has this harmful shirking fort perks now so I have to reroll just to get rid of it. Not very optimal situation
yeah, that’s very annoying, also if you have it 5 times, as it goes on the same buff it’s not bad, but only having it 1-2 times is bad.
fortunately i have 3 elemental aversion BIS for my Build already, two i already used before, one is crafted. probably going for a purple chest and trying to craft the 4th BIS piece^^
Yea we checked this… if you have 5 shirking forts it loads it into one buff…
So I think it will be 5 or nothing for meta build. You will never want like 2 shirking fort since the invig punishment will mean you actually take added damage from the “buff”
Again this is why I fear this whole change as being Ill conceived and rushed… they haven’t really thought thru what they are doing.
watch this vid it explains and tests all the changes really well!
Nice find!
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