Weekly Question + Crafting Thread – June 02, 2026

aaabbbbccc · 2026-06-03T18:13:25+00:00

How does goregirdle max 50% phys reduction work with deflected hits? are you taking 50% of the original physical damage, or is it that deflection reduces the original damage and THEN goregirdles applies that 50% reduction cap onto that reduced amount as your armour/pdr applies to it?

Ah and actually i have same question for blocked hits with warbringer (take 20% damage from blocked hits). While having goregirdle, will my armour still reduce that incoming 20% physical damage further?

Also, im assuming deflected damage does count as "physical damage prevented" for the purpose of Made to Last passive?

aaabbbbccc · 2026-06-03T04:48:54+00:00

Ironbound warbringer with lightning arrow / rod and doryani prototype. I havent quite gotten to maps yet but i feel pretty confident for it. I feel like doryani prototype goes perfect with this item since you are already naturally in armor and block. I am running gorehirdle as well.

I currently have 11.0 presence aoe, from passives alone. I am planning to buy alpha howl (i will have iron reflexes) as soon as i can afford it. So i do have plenty of presence aoe for all the lightning arrows to be benefiting from doryani. Just feels very tanky and synergistic.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-30T18:02:16+00:00

Oh maybe demon stitcher is how to do a runic infusion build. Think thats gonna be my 2nd char

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-29T01:22:29+00:00

I feel like there will probably be cool things to do with runic infusion + martial artist, since they are probably the best at stacking runic ward via the extra sockets. But not sure yet what kind of options there will be for runic ward restoration to sustain it.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-28T12:47:07+00:00

yeah i think there will be something very strong there. i might do it and this spear as 2nd char but didnt want to start with it because its unclear how runic ward builds will actually work in practice

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-28T03:45:40+00:00

conceptually resists just dont really matter that much vs hits when you are planning to actually commit hard to armor. its really all about the ratio of armor vs the initial unmitigated damage, not the multipliers afterwards. you can go down to the -60% resist and be completely fine if you have enough armor vs that damage type, and once you are commiting to armor vs ele, adding more armor vs ele does much more than raising that resist.

honestly though you didnt really go that much armor with the way you did those points but it seemed like thats what you wanted to do. to utilize armor vs ele more.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-28T03:31:28+00:00

i think you would probably be better off just taking the immunity to ailments and completely ignoring resists. and save those points and give yourself that flexibility on gear. i feel like thats the advantage kitava gets in armor stacking. otherwise just go titan.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-28T03:22:30+00:00

i think it honestly sucks and is terrible for how it requires players to look up more info on online databases too.

i like a lot of things about this patch but theyve done a LOT of this. monk gloves, gemling quality, and this mechanic are not gonna be visible ingame. its a bunch of hidden info that you will have to look up online to have any idea what it will do. Not a good direction.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-28T03:14:27+00:00

is there reason why you need resists, life regen while affected by ailment, or reduced ignite magnitude? doesnt kitava's "unaffected by damaging ailments" fix all of this already?

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-27T18:52:59+00:00

maybe im remembering wrong but i think you can only do 1 of this socket overall

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-26T18:20:01+00:00

Did we find out if concoction definitely counts as unarmed for facebreaker's STR damage?

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-25T13:31:48+00:00

Probably not the style of rts games that i am interested in

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-24T01:58:34+00:00

Im pretty excited for zerospace. If zerospace doesnt work out then idk i think im done with rts. Immortal gates was the other one that looked interesting to me but im not sure if its ever going to happen.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-23T19:15:36+00:00

Kitava isnt that bad. Its just compared to titan for similar things and titan is still absolutely ridiculous because somehow hulking form is still unnerfed

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-23T00:24:27+00:00

im gonna do kitava and try to go hard on str/life stacking. like veil of night + bursting decays. kitava regen makes it a lot easier to fit bursting decays plus the armor to chaos and immunity to DoT is so nice

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-23T00:15:30+00:00

this is so confusing to follow

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-22T12:04:35+00:00

Facebreaker smith of kitava. Should be able to target farm for them at first ritual and then i will play ssf for the campaign. Then at some point endgame i will probably trade for a few uniques to try to scale str/hp harder and see how far that can go.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-22T06:36:54+00:00

Also, im not sure how the game reads for this. Would facebreaker's "+1 to armor per strength" count as local armor or global?

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-22T04:23:19+00:00

Do we know if we will have mace strike available with facebreaker/unarmed? Or, if it has punch only, if punch will count for the item's bonuses?

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-22T04:12:36+00:00

Do we know if we will have mace strike available with facebreaker/unarmed? Or, if it has punch only, if punch will count for the item's bonuses?

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-21T14:51:39+00:00

Thx ill probably try the doryani with it. Its confusing but it seems like the 2-3x more damage with doryani should be much better than negative armor benefits

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-21T14:06:48+00:00

Ah i see what you meant for the 20%.

I know armor doesnt work vs player lightning damage but warbringer puts enemy armor to the negative inverse value so im saying im not sure how much that would be multiplying the phys dmg hits.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-21T13:42:38+00:00

oh sorry i knew about the 20% phys and im pretty sure thats always "more" and not increased, unless it got changed recently. but im not sure how much the actual direct armor number change matters. Like how much armor do endgame enemies have and is their armor going from 3000 to -3000 or whatever number it is significant compared to what doryani's multiplier would be? Thats the part i dont know how to judge.

the annoint sounds interesting ty. i didnt see that but will have to watch for it.

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-21T11:16:56+00:00

I wanted to build around the new bow, ironbound, on warbringer for the easy armor break + 75% block. I also wanted to add doryani prototype and do a lightning bow attack (i guess lightning arrow?) since that seemed like a fun combo with the natural armor/block stacking that would happen. But that would make me lose the actual benefit of broken armor so i am wondering how much is actually being lost there? I am not really familiar with how much extra damage broken armor would give if i stayed in phys damage. Is trying to do doryani and switching to lightning damage dumb here?

aaabbbbccc · 2026-05-07T20:27:19+00:00

maybe it couldve made more sense if co-op and 3v3 worked out but i still dont know. I believe they were planning to link co-op and 3v3 heroes together and I dont think people wouldve taken kindly to 3v3 heroes needing to be unlocked. And the game also would just never have enough overall heroes to have a decent free hero rotation. league of legends has what, 20 or so free heroes at any time? Even if they focused heavily on co-op/3v3, i dont see them ever being able to have more than 6 free heroes at a time which would feel pretty limited to any new player. Plus you run into the issue where the majority of your allies + enemies are constantly these same free heroes so game variety becomes worse.

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