I got 2 pieces not knowing how op it was:rofl: I only got it because I had shirking energy, it made sense in terms of synergy. I had no idea how much damage it was actually mitigating. Even if it starts working as intended it will be strong 
I confirm, the stat is busted.
1 stack per armor piece should be the max.
The stack should add up and not be mutiplied.
Do you realise that the whole armoring system is busted because of this?
You realise that it gives 50% damage absorption to a light wearer from the beggining to the end of a fight?
Get good,? Wth is wrong with you.
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Tested wrong where? I tested exactly how it works…?
This is on the PTR:
Fixed issue that allowed the “Shirking Fortification” perk to stack multiple times, allowing up to a 50% Fortify.
Haven’t been able to test it but if someone could test it that would be great.
They just reduced the max stack from 5 to 1, so you can only get the most by wearing a full set of Shirking Fortification.
Well, it was funny dodging a BB shot and instantly getting 5 stacks. Definitely overtuned.
I think reducing it down to 1 stack and maybe expanding the Shirking window would help with consistency. Right now, only Medium and Heavy want it because Light gets too far away for it to work.
well that thats kinda weaksauce if you only run a few pieces.
at best with 5 pieces you get 19.5% pretty solid still if say you are in your own gw and get 10% + another 10% if there is a fortifying sacred ground.
currently only rolled 1 piece with it on so its basically worthless at 3.9%
would need at least 3 to make it on point with various perks.
Couldn’t get it to stack in the PTR. Seems like it’s fixed!
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Uh i have it because i roll gear and try at the game. Why are you crying ? I still kill people with it and without it in opr and war. Why do you think everyone runs resilient? Because its good. Sry that you cant run the same gear youve had for the last 6 months but the game has to evolve somehow or there is nothing to grind for.
gtfo my forum posts if you are just going to cry and flame
I have it too champion, it doesnt change how overpowered it is because of the bug… they’ll fix it and then it will be on par with other perks. I am happy with the outcome.
Also try to google the definition of “forum” ou might learn something.
And be civilized kiddo. The forum is not your toilet.
I don’t think it’s was that OP. Sure you can get 50% quite easily with 3+ pieces. But you also have to take into consideration that everyone is already running 10% fortify from gems + a lot of abilities gives fortify. Wrecking Ball for example gives 20%, Sacred Ground gives 9.7%, Whirlwind gives 10% up to 5stacks so pretty much caps you right away in wars. Then there are oakflesh/gemstone dust which gives 35%.
If anything I wish they just added a CD to it instead.
Now I think they nerfed it too hard. I don’t think anyone gonna run it anymore over something like refreshing or refreshing evasion which doesn’t have any cooldown either + you don’t even have to time it correctly for dodging enemy attacks, you just simply dodge and it works.
Yeah it sucks now I rather have refreshing or refreshing evasion, or freedom.
to be fair most perks sucks in ones besides shirking energy.
It was over the top and was brought back in line with a single players ability to negate damage
Its a “bonus” of mitigation during combat. Like weakening someone during skewer / maelstrom / posionshot (with the perk) You’ve now weakened your targets damage and have fortify further widening the damage gap they deal.
p.s. Blunderbuss counted every pellet, 1 dodge of BB and you were capped. Which was also why rmove was taken off of BB. Imo it should have been counted as 1 hit instead of triggering off every pellet but here we are 
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you do have a point but fortify has so many other sources so why waste 5 armor perks on like 20% which you also have to time a dodge on and isn’t on at all times (like resilience or most other armor perks)? Meanwhile all bruisers can just use wreckingball and get 20% fortify right away, without needing any additional perks.
Agree ags should have changed bb shots to count as 1 hit instead.
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i mean to be fair if you have all 5 fort perks then when you wrecking ball right after a dodge in the middle of a ball you will get almost 40% 50 if you are in your own GW, OR a sacred.
i think its mostly fine but could be slightly uptuned so that even 3 pieces are more useful.
most people are running 10% from gems too so in that case you’d have 60-70% fortify in which you’d be immune to most rend. Also the hardened steel perk in the WH tree gives you 12% whenever you have active grit, so basically all the time. Outnumbered perk gives you another 10% if theres 2 or more enemies within 3m, so pretty much always active in wars as well. So now we’re at 82-92% fortify. Meaning the 5 armor perks doesn’t do anything at all anymore.
Which is why I say any other armor perks would be better, especially like refreshing evasion which gives close to 0.98% CD reduction every time you dodge from each piece, so basically 5% from 5 pieces. So you can just dodge twice and get 10% cooldown reduction and doesn’t even have to time it correctly. Also this can be further increased by having the perk on jewelry and now even some weapons has it too. Not to mention it got even stronger now with the shirking energy perk allowing for 1 extra dodge every 6 seconds.
Or if you stack 5 freedom you’ll be able to escape CCs way faster breaking any combo’s that someone might try on you.
wait what gems?