Armor Shredder

[Jon.Topps]

I've seen people talking about this perk a lot in the forums, I'd just like some clarification as to what this actually does. I've seen that it apparently does nothing against most armored mobs. If it doesn't actually ignore armor in most cases, then what exactly is it doing?
Thanks for the help

[Mihryazd]

It means that enemy armor is not accounted for in the damage calculation.

Armor Shredder doesn't apply to enemies that have infinite armor, i.e. Bobble Heads. If you hit a Bobble anywhere but its weak spot even with Armor Shredder, you won't deal any damage.

In the past using Armor Shredder with a weapon that already ignores armor (i.e. Drone Launcher) caused the Armor of the target to be added to each shot as damage. That was patched recently.

[Blaquicat]

There are lots of annoying lumes that have armor..
(All fly ones, Walker Warrior, Patriarch, all heavies, rhinos.. and others)
You can deal more damage to all those lumes..

I like this perk for a better damage from the smatter band..

[eStecko]

Enemies that have armor, reduce damage dealt to them by X amount of that armor. Heavy lume that has 200 armor, will still take damage from weapons that ignore armor already - Drone Launcher for instance - or take reduced damage from weapons that do over 200 damage.

The only exception are enemies that have infinite armor, such as Hovers and Bobbleheads. In that case the perk will not work again them.

The best use for this perk is in combination with low damage per shot weapons, such as SMG.