Talk:Armor/@comment-173.31.131.107-20150503014005/@comment-665695-20150504034039

I do not have Chroma myself, so I cannot run tests myself. I trust, however, Darzk on the Warframe forums (he's answered my questions thoroughly before) and I was fortunate to find that he has already answered most of this question here.

The one part missing is the Arcane Guardian, but I can tell you that the 60% boost from it won't make it skyrocket beyond the 4297 he writes. This is because, as the article above indicates, modifiers (usually) don't get multiplied with each other&mdash;they add together into one big modifier&trade; and that gets multiplied once against the base armor of Chroma, which is 350.


 * Steel Fiber adds 1.1 to the "One Big Modifier&trade;".
 * Vex Armor can add up to 9.96 to the "One Big Modifier&trade;".
 * Arcane Guardian will add 0.6 to the "One Big Modifier&trade;" while it's active.
 * Elemental Ward with maximum strength doesn't multiply with anything&mdash;it just adds 426 armor, so that gets tacked on after the multiplication finishes.

Now, let's do the calculation. I'll avoid skipping steps so you can trace it easily:

So, unless there was something special about Arcane Guardian, it's likely only there to be the difference between 4297 and 4857; in other words, Arcane Guardian adds 560 armor.

So finally, what's the damage reduction on this? Again, the above article details this. It would be:

That's the answer: It gives you roughly 94.18% damage reduction. (Without Arcane Guardian, it would be 93.87% damage reduction.)

@User:AdmiralRegis, the maximum of 350% from Vex Armor isn't a cap on the effects from Power Strength, it's the cap on effects from Scorn. Power Strength raises the cap on Scorn from 350% to 996%.