Talk:Atma's Impaler/@comment-24058537-20140823220035/@comment-4091261-20141029050250

There is a massive difference between resistance and health. Health is superior for taking moderate damage. Resistance is superior for taking a metric ton of a single type of damage. The reason? Simple, resistance is more effective the more damage you take. To exemplify this consider someone with 1375 health with no armor with someone with 1000 health and 50 armor. If this person takes 1000 physical damage, the person with armor takes 666 damage, lel. The other takes the full 1000 damage. That leaves the person with armor having 334 health left while the person with extra health has 375 health left.

In the second scenario, they all have the same stats but this time, they take 1375 phyisical damage. The one with armor takes 916 damage while the one with health... dies. Not so healthy anymore. Basically what I'm saying is that health is to take the brunt of damage, but not to widthstand it all. Resistance is for those who expect to be mauled like mad. When I say mad, I do mean mad, because even with no resistance the person with a bit of extra health still miraculously came out as the victor from taking 1000 physical damage. So don't hate so much on the health side, it has it's own purpose. That purpose is usually to survive long enough to pull off maximum damage, cough fighter cough. The only thing that's the issue is how big got. So long as that is meta, health won't do so well.