Talk:Ash (Warframe)/@comment-67.85.97.152-20150616000924/@comment-3391671-20150617023243

To calculate your effective health with health and armor, you would use the following formula: Effective Health = Raw Health x (100/(300/(300+armor))); otherwise, it's "raw health times 100 over (one-hundred minus damage reduction)" Sounds messy, but here is the math.

With 1290 health and 150 armor: 1290 x (100/(300/(300+150))) or 1290 x (100/(100-33)) = 1290 x (100/(66)) = 1290 x 1.5 = 1935 effective health.

With 600 health and 315 armor: 600 x (100/(300/(300+315))) or 600 x (100/(100-51)) = 600 x (100/(49)) = 600 x 2.04 = 1224.5 effective health.

In many cases, maxing Vitality grants more effective health, as seen above. But, with maxed armor, while you have lower effective health, you also gain effeciency when healing oneself through any source; with armor, each point of raw health has more weight. Basically, it's easier to heal 600 health than 1224.5 health, while there is more value in healing less health with more armor.