Talk:Titan Teslashock/@comment-72.70.77.251-20141207174921/@comment-24659969-20141207184531

Depends. Fortified always good, better than nothing at all. If you have body armor expert levelled up, it is even better. Remember: less damage taken = less healing needed to heal that damage. So damage reduction usually performs well with any fixed HP healing ie Medic medkit, HP regen skills and augment, and the likes.

The catch is like this:

Example you have 5 fortification for total of 3K armor + level 25 armor expert, you would have about 90% physical damage reduc and 12K HP at level 100. Suppose if you used 5 body fueling and 25 toughness instead you would have 43875 HP and only probably around 25% physical damage reduction. Now take a hit from Savage Necrosis which deals 22000 physical. The first case can tank literally 5 hits and requires only 3 medkits to heal or 10 minutes on 20 HP/sec regen, the latter however only able to tank 3 hits and requires 11 medkits to heal or 35 minutes on 20 HP/sec regen. However suppose the necro spawn kicks in, since you only reduce physical damage, you are in 1~2 hits KO danger from the fire and toxic spawns while the latter can tank the same 3 hits.

Well it is wise to say, you should match it to your playstyle and what skill you are using. Fortification on Titan teslashock is considered as one of most effective due to huge base multiplier. Other than Titan, probably only Titan pants, Heavy armor vest and R4 guardian are the other worthy candidates. On other weaker armor, fortification is considered less effective than body fueling