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AS I have perhaps said elsewhere (might have been a comment on youtube), the armor isn't all that dodgy. It does eventually get +12, and the shield grants -6 to the monsters for a total of 18. The 65/66/66 in a FSB becomes 83/84/84 which isnt bad, but not the best. In addition, the shield's skill adds a LOT. With -20 from berserk and an additional blind (depends on darkness/energy resistance of monster) you can gain an additional perhaps ~60-80 blocking. I think it was designed with the understanding you'd be using the shield's skill.
I do think that adding the 12 immediately makes more sense.
At the end of the day, using titan's fall + the armor yields better results than the FSB, for sure.
You mentioned you are "spending a bunch of resources", ie you're likely using a lot of quick casts, blinds, self buffs, etc etc to generate blocking to make it worthwhile. I hated this about "dodge builds" and is why I never really went all in to try it out fully. That, and I only recently picked up Ghost Costume.
However, two things happened. First, Mandate spell came out. People are sop used to following the crowd (I'm not saying you too) that they're stuck just doing what others recommend rather than testing stuff out. Mandate is the single most powerful defensive spell in the game, when partnered with Prime Chaos Orb to move monster element to earth, and then switch to roots of daw for additional blocking.
Did you see anyone salivating over the spell? Nope. All you saw was "this doesn't make sense because you don't need a damage reduction effect with a blocking effect it doesn't make sense" when if people would open their eyes and realize it actually DOES make sense. While building blocking with multiple casts (2-3), the choke softens the blow IF you get hit. Both Shadow Raiment and Hollowborn take in more damage if they're hit. You're gonna need it if you get hit.
Second, I made a spreadsheet using formulae from the master formulae thread and figured out if you're a pure build, or even perhaps a beast build w/ dex using bun barrets.... if you're able to stack about 88 blocking with a combined self mrm buff, blind, berserk, the cold, bth loss (entangle), you wont be hit no matter the armor. This is 88 total above 59 base blocking from shield/armor. You already said Hollowborn has 65. So you're 7 points ahead. Just need to get 81 more.
So here's what I'd recommend, and I don't know what your build is, but this is a bit easier as a mage, especially if you have Necromancer or some other form of MP regen. I see you have Spelslinger, so I'm guessing you're a Mage.
Go get Mandate spell. (MP version, I see you have SP, but you can use the SP to test what I'm about to tell you. But get celerity first turn, cast mandate twice while wielding emancipator's radiance while *in* Necromancer armor. -20 blind potence from the shield + 7.5 more from the armor will mean almost every roll you'll win. Versus 100% Earth, 2 casts yields 60 blind. A 3rd if so desired is 80 blind. This increases as earth resist goes up. Choke is also going to drastically lower your defense as if you have a 50% misc to all elements, and then some *if* you get hit. This also gets better with higher earth resist. Earth @ 130% results in 78 blind in two turns and 0.278% choke. 3 turns is 104 blind and 0.038 choke. It's the strongest defensive spell in the game, bar none. Just PCO to Earth. And since it lasts 6 turns, you can switch to Hollowborn and titan's fall and dodgelash to youre hearts content.
So @ 100% Earth, this is how easy it is to never be hit in *any* armor. Win 2 mandate rolls and you have +60 blind, +19 from bun barrets (39 if beastmaster), and if you used roots of daw, -216 dex for -16 bth for the monster. For a beast build, this is already unhittable. 60 + 39 + 16 =115 blocking and Even against a pure build monster with 275/250/250 stat spread, it has a -27.83% chance to hit you.
Wield emancipators radiance, two mandate casts with bun barrets out. And youre unhittable for 6 rounds.
So change your strategy away from the "accepted" methods and at *LEAST* go test this, and come back telling me OMG!!!! And have fun with your Hollowborn, like I do.
< Message edited by SapphireCatalyst2021 -- 12/11/2021 9:20:50 >
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