Talk:Armor/@comment-155.56.68.215-20110902114357

Why is there so much "effective health" stupidness? I mean its totally misleading and leads to the problem that people think its important and it would be the same to increase armor from 30 to 100 (good) as like from 430 to 500 (totally stupid). Sure in case of "effective health" its true. But it don't take in account the cost of the points.

To make it more clear:

10000 Health + no armor = 10000 effective health 5000 Health + 100 armor = 10000 effective health 1666 Health + 500 armor = 10000 effective health

Items cost money. Lets say 1 Health costs you 1 Gold and 1 Armor costs you 5 Gold. So which of the 3 above is good and which is bad?

10000 Health = 10000 Gold 5000 Health + 100 Armor = 5500 Gold 1666 Health + 500 Armor = 1666 + 2500 = 4166 Gold

So is 500 Armor best? NO, its totally stupid againt anything other than 5 physical opponents.

Armor is only 1 part of defense. You usually need MR as well and now its far more cost effective to push 5000 health with 100 MR than your 1666 health with 500 MR!

So Armor has no Diminishing Returns? Sure it has! Stupid "effective health" is just not the thing you should compare with. The Diminishing Returns comes when you take the costs in account which you should! So pointless article and totally missleading for not-so-mathematic-people.