Armor System: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:15, 20 October 2025

Armor in Diablo 4 consists of the following components.

Chest Armor and pants provide most armor value.
Armor Value depends on the item power. Armor value scales linearly.
Armor is a source of all damage reduction against all damage types.
A new resistance type was added in Season 11 called Physical Resistance. This means a player can have five elemental resistances and physical resistance making it a total of six physical resistance types.
In Season 11, Toughness was added to the character sheet and is a mathematical representation of a player's effect effective HP. The higher the toughness value, the "tankier" the character.

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 * Legs
 * Gloves
-* [[Boots]]
+* Boots
 * Amulet
 * Ring 1
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 == Armor Important Notes ==
-* [[Chest Armor]] and pants provide most armor value.
+* '''Chest Armor''' and '''pants''' provide most armor value.
 * Armor Value depends on the item power. Armor value scales linearly.
-* Armor is different in D4 than in D3. In Diablo 4. Armor not only mitigate physical damage, it absorbs a certain amount of non-physical damage. Non-physical absorbed damage is half of the physical damage.
+* Armor is a source of all damage reduction against all damage types.
+* A new resistance type was added in Season 11 called Physical Resistance. This means a player can have five elemental resistances and physical resistance making it a total of six physical resistance types.
+* In Season 11, Toughness was added to the character sheet and is a mathematical representation of a player's effect effective HP. The higher the toughness value, the "tankier" the character.
 == Damage Reduction Graphs ==