Armor in this game does nothing?

[FOXDIE]

I'll start by saying that i am a new Warframe player and i liked the game so far. I played Mag most of the time and felt pretty good in combat because of high shield capacity, but when the shields go down - Mag dies in seconds which started to happen often. 900 shields on Mag melt in a blink of an eye VS Lvl 25 - 30 Grineer.
So recently i started playing Valkyr bacause i thought that 600 base armor seems pretty tasty vs Mag 50 armor and considering Excalibur have only 150 i think and he is melee based i guess. So here i thought that modding up armor some more will make me tanky and i can absorb some damage to my health and not die in a second like Mag. How i was wrong... So i have 900 armor on Valkyr right now and i went on a Hyenas boss mission in solo, because it seems that nobody was there at that time. The Corpus mobs there are just destroying me and they are only like 35 lvl i think. My shields drops in a second, okay i get that because i only have 150 of it, but my health melts down very fast too. Its just the same Mag, but with extra seconds before getting shot to death. So here i need to constantly running around, taking cover and carefully shoot the mobs and avoiding getting shot which is tricky because the mobs are everywhere and there is annoying Bursa coming at me. Cant melee too because i will just die from Corpus fire. So i just rushed to the boss room and managed to take them all down easily with a death ray focus thing that does 10k dmg.
I'm not complaining that its getting harder to play this game on higher lvl's i'm just trying to figure out how 900(!!!) armor and 50 armor doesnt feel any different. The big orange Corpus dude with some energy gun just oneshotted me (600 health oneshot through 900 armor) and i feel pretty desperate lol. I know that Valkyr cant die with Hysteria, but i checked that i need a lot of rare mods to be able to use Hysteria often. Right now i just dont have the energy sustain like at all, and i only use Hysteria to get the health back and heavily rely on blue orbs which is RNG.
So am i needed to drop the armor completely and go grinding for an overpowered infinity Hysteria Valkyr build?

[skizo60]

I played warframe and I can tell you this: valkyr has a hard time against high lvl corpus because they deal puncture dmg wich has bonus dmg against armour.
Grineer has weapons wich deals bonus damage to shields and if their weapons status procs then you gonna bleed.

My suggestion: if you are new to the game and dont really have good mods try to use the right warframe against the enemy eg:mag is the bane of corpus, valkyr is very good against grineer

Also I recommend you to lvl up the 3 survive mods (steel fiber,redirection,vitality) or at least the one you need.

I hope I helped.

[Sterling]

skizo60 の投稿を引用：

I played warframe and I can tell you this: valkyr has a hard time against high lvl corpus because they deal puncture dmg wich has bonus dmg against armour.

Warframes don't have an armor bar.

[skizo60]

Sterling の投稿を引用：

skizo60 の投稿を引用：

I played warframe and I can tell you this: valkyr has a hard time against high lvl corpus because they deal puncture dmg wich has bonus dmg against armour.

Warframes don't have an armor bar.

No it doesnt because the armor simpy decreases the damage taken to health.
I did explain it wrong, sorry.

Let me rephrase that:
Grineer has weapons that ignores a percent of your armor so your health takes more damage.
This percent CAN go up to almost 100%, meaning you will take the full damage from their attacks.

Sorry again for the wrong explanation earlier.

[Sterling]

skizo60 の投稿を引用：

Sterling の投稿を引用：

Warframes don't have an armor bar.

No it doesnt because the armor simpy decreases the damage taken to health.
I did explain it wrong, sorry.

Let me rephrase that:
Grineer has weapons that ignores a percent of your armor so your health takes more damage.
This percent CAN go up to almost 100%, meaning you will take the full damage from their attacks.

Sorry again for the wrong explanation earlier.

Slash procs ignore armor, but the weapons themselves don't. I'm not sure if enemy bleeding procs stack, but I'm willing to bet they do.

[geniusLEVELidiot-FkM]

lol dying vs lvl 25 nmes.

[G0PA]

To use Hysteria a lot you juste need " Rage ", get low life, use Hysteria, life steal, end of Hysteria, get low life, Hysteria, etc etc etc etc.

As you i play Mag/Valkyr a lot and i can assure you that i can see a clearly difference of damage taken. (Talking about lvl 60+) 40 and less i can clearly afk as Valkyr ^^^^ ( Got 1140 armor ) http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Valkyr Look at " warcry" ability. Try to always be under Warcry.

About mods I'm just playing with Rage, Intensify, Vitality, Steel fiver and Flux. Rage could be a difficult mods to own, I dont even remember how and when i got it :p ( MR 9 for 250hrs+ )

As Mag mods, you need at least, Redirection(Rank 6-7+), Flux, Stretch, Intensify and Streamline ( Stream line rank 3-4 is good ) and try to get " Continuity " . The best mods for Mag is " Shield transference " but it take so long to get it, really long

[Khayne]

only 1 frame imo that can actually armor tank for a while ie fully buffed up ice chroma he has a crazy amount of armor and takes very litle damage while the buff is active just got to be carefull with recharging up the buff on higher lvl stuff. he basicly has 7k armor for 1 minute with 260% power strenght and without using armored agility and steel fiber