Do developers really tested how armor shred works on mobs?

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What physical damage were you doing to take advantage of armour shred?

But yes, there have been numerous posts about the pointlessness/ineffectiveness of penetration/shred:

Why penetrations are pretty much useless late game, on high health enemies

So… for a few months I have been working on/off on Google spreadsheets and learning a lot of math and coding in spreadsheets. It’s been interesting and I have shared my findings on certain streams, such as on Lonestar McFluffins stream on several occasions. This week I reworked a lot of the coding, after learning a bit of algebra and I can now use the spreadsheet for so many things. For now it doesn’t include block protection/armour calculations, but it will soon enough. What I’m getting at is…

Elemental Penetration: Ineffective or Misunderstood

Hi guys. Been playing this game with my son as time permits. We’ve been theorycrafting and testing my son’s mages and things don’t seem to be adding up when it comes to elemental penetration or sources thereof. For example, shock stacks don’t seem to do anything or very little effect. Scaling out elemental penetration by itself doesn’t seem to be too effective, either. It feels like you can’t go negative, or going negative has very little effect. We feel it might just make more sense to sw…

Shred mechanic

its hard to tell at the moment as we dont have the base stats to show the actual numbers but shred does not feel like its having an impact on higher level monsters.for example: [image] this Vengeance skill shows i’m getting 100% chance to shred, assuming that its also giving me 100 points of armour shred this this is going to have a greater impact on trash monsters but any higher level monsters with significant protects is going to be largely unaffected. the investment in 4 points does not s…

Shred Armor/Protection too weak in late game?

As I read and calculated the protection formula in this game, I feel like all shred armor/protection mechanism is too weak now in late game. Basically health + protection = effective health, therefore damage reduction = health/(health+protection). In late game as I observed, rare and boss monsters have 80% or higher damage reduction, and 10K health. So if I calculate correct, that means these monsters have 40K protection. And then I look at the shred armor/protection numbers: 100 per stack by d…

Some calculations, that proves that lighting shock is buged

lets take monolith with mod : monsters have resist equal to 50% their life. we can assume that average monster life in monolith is 4000.] So elemental resist is around 2000. And without shock monster will resist 2000/(2000+4000) = 0.33 => 33% damage will be resisted. Now my stats that effect shock: lightning blast 60% shock chance (lightning blast - volatile lightning) passives 16% (ceraunamancer) 50% shock effect (‘arcane current’ 1 point) gear 43% shock chance - to…