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Health vs Armor/Magic Resist
The choice between health and armor or magic resist depends on the types of damage you are facing. Buy mostly armor against physical, mostly magic resist against magic, and health against true damage. The two graphs below show the most efficient health to armor/magic resist ratios, when facing damage purely of one type (top) or when facing 50% physical/50% magic (bottom). This is meant ONLY AS A GUIDE, the equations represents efficiency under ideal conditions, penetration, reduction, %health damage, and health regen will all perturb this from ideal conditions.

 Figure 1: Line of maximum efficiency of health vs armor/magic resist under ideal conditions, assuming either only ph ysical or only magic damage is received. Equation: Health = 7.5(Armor/magic resist) + 750 

Figure 2: Line of maximum efficiency of health vs armor/magic resist under ideal conditions, assuming 50% physical and 50% magic damage is received, and that armor and magic resist are the same. Equation: Health = 15(Armor/magic resist) + 1500