Talk:Hardplate Chest/@comment-26971153-20141231161111/@comment-24659969-20141231183859

Even with maxed body armour expert, full masteries and hardplate set augmenteds. The highest legit physical def still does not provide 100% physical damage reduction, nor even it is gonna happen with other two, heat and chemical. You could achieve something as high as 95%++ damage reduction for physical only. But so far no way to achieve 100% damage reduc after mastery update without hacks since body armour expert now counted from armor base instead augmented value.

Btw, there is also softcap upon damage reduction, something like if your total armor bypassed a certain point, its effective number value is decreased.