Heavy Armor Vs Fortitude, which is better and thoughts?

[KinKin25]

^Topic. I was THINKING about it for my berserker mayhem.

I know, get gud, don't get hit, but I see tons of folks getting hit in Argos, they just survive by avoiding the biggest mechanics or using all the revives. Or being way above the recommended iLVL.

So I'm thinking about it.

[Pew]

neither on any character that is not bard, only time you would ever use heavy armor is if youre doing PVP or youre playing bard

[apple juice]

Originally posted by KinKin25:

^Topic. I was THINKING about it for my berserker mayhem.

I know, get gud, don't get hit, but I see tons of folks getting hit in Argos, they just survive by avoiding the biggest mechanics or using all the revives. Or being way above the recommended iLVL.

So I'm thinking about it.

99% of the time the 'don't get hit' people are nowhere near good enough to be giving anyone else advice. Just play around with anything that seems interesting and use it for a while and you'll find what works best for you.

[KinKin25]

Can I get more thoughts on this?

If I were to get one on my berserker as a fifth because I'm not as 'gud', which one would you suggest?

[Pew]

neither

[GreenBearD]

honestly build how you want. If you're almost always dying early into a fight. Survivability could be better than more damage in that case.

A DPS short one damage engraving can out damage a DPS that dies early in a fight.

[Cait]

Originally posted by KinKin25:

Can I get more thoughts on this?

If I were to get one on my berserker as a fifth because I'm not as 'gud', which one would you suggest?

If i were to say, i'd get heavy armor since zerks have high def coefficient iirc?
Although on a side note, only for the 4th engraving choice.
Mayhem - Masters Tenacity - Cursed Doll/Keen-Blunt + lv 2/3 Heavy Armor

Running Heavy / Fortitude as your 3rd engraving is just a sure way to not get accepted in parties.

[Joerg Baermann]

Originally posted by Cait:

If i were to say, i'd get heavy armor since zerks have high def coefficient iirc?
Although on a side note, only for the 4th engraving choice.
Mayhem - Masters Tenacity - Cursed Doll/Keen-Blunt + lv 2/3 Heavy Armor

Running Heavy / Fortitude as your 3rd engraving is just a sure way to not get accepted in parties.

HA is fine as 3rth T1/T2, I agree that for T3 it is better as 4th and as 3/3, all 4 should be 3/3 without issues.

Unless your going raids where everything is about min/max, there HA would be a waste taken that bosses go down lightning fast.
Unfortunately that often isn't the case, which makes HA a safer bet as the 4th engraving to stay alive and get that raid boss down even if it might take slightly more time.

HA > Fortitude for any class.

[Grimmz]

Originally posted by Cait:

Originally posted by KinKin25:

Can I get more thoughts on this?

If I were to get one on my berserker as a fifth because I'm not as 'gud', which one would you suggest?

If i were to say, i'd get heavy armor since zerks have high def coefficient iirc?
Although on a side note, only for the 4th engraving choice.
Mayhem - Masters Tenacity - Cursed Doll/Keen-Blunt + lv 2/3 Heavy Armor

Running Heavy / Fortitude as your 3rd engraving is just a sure way to not get accepted in parties.

correction: not get accepted in elitist andy parties.

i got fortitude as zerker and i get accepted all the time.

[♋Phenex]

Honestly neither and up your ilvl instead to reduce damage.

[Boink]

Originally posted by KinKin25:

^Topic. I was THINKING about it for my berserker mayhem.

I know, get gud, don't get hit, but I see tons of folks getting hit in Argos, they just survive by avoiding the biggest mechanics or using all the revives. Or being way above the recommended iLVL.

So I'm thinking about it.

Just an advice: See if cards can help you because 3/3 is "expensive" or 4/3 for heavy armor and it is not that useful with Argos.

Nature Elementals or Forest Giants / We'll meet again card set.

Or just like someone previously mentioned work on your armor sets pants / chestpiece.

If those 2 values didn't help you then go for heavy armor or fortitude. HA is more "universal" investment.

[♣ Babymaker ♣]

Fortitude is better for Berserker ifyou're on Mayhem

[MASTERNIKOFTW#PATRIOTS4TRUMP]

ngl me a soulfist using robust, eo, raid capt, and fortitude...

havent died by hits from valtan normal yet... fell off many times, but never instakileld by valtan, always make it to ghost if i don't ♥♥♥♥ up.

barely hit 1445 yesterday... so i don't know how hard valtan hit at hardmode.

EDIT: did valtan everyweek except first, and i generally get accepted in most p1-p2 parties.

[Tigre]

The problem with defensive engravings on DPS characters is that hey will make the fight last longer , and since there's an enrage time in the harder bosses it's very bad for a DPS to be using them instead of a damage boost, but if you are dying on mechanics that you have to evade you will hardly resist much more in the upcoming legion raids, but all i sayd is if you take in considerantion everyone is on the same item level of the content. I would advice you to take instead SPirit absorption because it's way easier to do avoid damage and land attacks quicker.

[Williee]

Defensive engravings is usually frowned upon. You might have more trouble getting into groups due to it. If you make your own groups, then it would be no problemo.

[lostarkthegame]

If you think it helps you to survive, go for it. If you die, you don't do damage/support. And I think fortitude is very weak.