So, like I have been playing this game for about a year, yes sadly and I do not know about how the armor / stats work in this game and I haven’t really read about it until recently … Are there any guides that i can read abotu armor / stats on each class and what to look out for in game when playing lets say a Mage or a Sentinel or a Rogue?
https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/armor
This page will let you play around with various armor values and see how much protection you get. Very roughly speaking, each 30 armor gets you 1% more effective health/ward against physical hits; for non-physical hits it’s each 70 armor instead. As for attributes, the tooltips for each one in your character pane tell you their inherent effects. Skills that scale with attributes generally get 4% increased damage per point; this is additive with other sources of increased damage.
Outside of resistences/block/dodge/Endurence/Glancing Blow/Parrychance/ Crit avoidence (less dmg taken from crits) that are capped at a certain point, more = better. You can see the caps in your char sheet and you’ll not use all forms of possible defence layers anyway. Focus on those you can use besst with your mastery and call it a day.
If you press G in game there is a guide that will explain mechanics. If ever you are unsure about something look it up I the guide.