We'll help you build/troubleshoot/plan your Armor Stacking build for POE 3.23.

Build Types

• Doryanies Prototype

This is a very common build for scion and champ as it provides very easy and cheap damage. However, Lightning degen can kill you very quickly!

• Grasping Mail Resistance Stacker

The real endgame version for armour stacker! insane damage with almost 0 downsides but very expensive!

• Transcendence Armour Stacker

Giga Expensive but truly immortal when built properly. Not for the faint of heart as this build requires 5-10 mirrors just to get started!

An Armor Stacker will tipically have:

-90% Elemental Resistance.

-90% physical resitance.

-5 Mill DPS on low end budgets and 20 mill or so on a build with no Mageblood belt.

-most are a CI build so no need to worry about chaos damage.

-Shield users with Aeigis will have Max block and spell block and recover FULL Energy Shield on block!

-Can Do most content in the game.

Some downsides:

-Requires some game knowledge to build. 

-Will die to lightning degen if you are using doryanys prototype.

-Can be Expensive to build depending on market price for items.

What is an Armor Stacker?

Armor stacker uses the unique sword "Replica Dreamfeather" to increase attack damage by a percent of our armor. We then stack a lot of Evasion rating and Armor with Auras, Flask and Aura effect to get extreme levels of Armor. Why Evasion? well we can convert evasion rating to Armor with the keystone "Iron Reflexes".

"An important thing to note is that flat evasion gets scaled by modifiers to evasion AND armour (increases, mores), whereas flat armour is only scaled by armour modifiers, i.e, total armour = (flat armour * armour modifiers) + (flat evasion * evasion and armour modifiers). Because we have many sources of increased and more evasion, it follows that we should focus on flat evasion over flat armour. Increased and more modifiers to evasion and armour are roughly equal, the only difference being that armour modifiers will scale what little flat armour we do have. 

What skill does the armor stacker use?

Since we are stacking lots of arua effect most like to use smite. Smite has an aura that gives lightning damage when we hit a target. This counts as an aura and is also scaled by all of our aura effects. Making it the preferred skill to use. However, you can use other skills such as Lightning Strike as well. Basically any skill that can be used with a sword can be used! You will however need to use smite as a separate skill to gain the damage boost from smite's aura.