Hi there! Today, let's look into the enigma surrounding The Flawed Refuge, which is a unique shield in the 3.23 Affliction League and unlock its potential. Discover how it uses its unique properties for damage mitigation and elemental penetration. Good for players who like niche builds and strategies.

 

• Basic Examples
• Non-Damaging Ailments
• Elemental Penetration
• Penetration Examples
• Overwhelm
• Synergies
• Damaging Ailments
• Damage from Blocked Hits

 

↖ Basic Examples

• Understand Shield: The Flawed Refuge has a mix of armor, evasion rating and additional chance to block attacks. However – wait for this - it causes 100% of blocked hits elemental damage and 40% of hit Elemental damage to convert into physical damage.
• Calculating Damage: It is possible to take 3,000 lightning damage as a case study. This would normally lead to 750 damage after you have accounted for your 75% resistance. In this case some of it is Physical reducing the full impact due to Armor Mitigation aside from other reasons.

 

75% Elemental Resistance, 20000 ArmourTaking a hit of 3000 Lightning Damage

Without Flawed Refuge		With Flawed Refuge
3000* 0.25= 750	10000 * 0.25 = 2500	1800* 0.25= 450 1200 *0.23= 276	6000 *0.25=1500 4000 *0.5 =2000
Total taken: 750	Total taken: 2500	Total taken: 726	Total taken:3500

 

↖ Non-Damaging Ailments

Cold and Shocking Ailments are influenced by type and magnitude of the incoming damage experienced by a character, thus using The Flawed Refuge may result in weaker non-damaging ailments like chills or shocks because fewer elemental damage is taken.

 

↖ Elemental Penetration

Dodging The Bullet: It can be argued that the shield it might mean the difference between life and death when facing elements. By converting some of the elemental damage to physical, it circumvents the elemental penetration, potentially lowering the total damage taken.

 

↖ Penetration Examples

Shaper's Ball Ability: Think about Shaper's cold damage with penetration. Without the shield, you take full brunt of the cold penetration. With the shield, some becomes physical that could be more effectively stopped especially by armor and endurance charges.

 

80% Elemental Resistance, 25000 Armour, 3 Endurance ChargesTaking a hit of 13000 Cold Damage with 25% Cold Penetration

Without Flawed Refuge		With Flawed Refuge
13000*0.45=5850	13500* 0.6=8100	7800*0.45=3510 5200* 0.39=2028	8100* 0.6=4860 5400* 0.4=2160
Total taken:5850	Total taken:8100	Total taken:5538	Total taken:7020

 

↖ Overwhelm

Watch Out: One must be cautious when confronted by "overwhelm" abilities that make physical damage bypass some mitigation measures since such cases would render The Flawed Refuge ineffective.

 

↖ Synergies

Divine Flesh and More: Combining The Flawed Refuge with Divine Flesh, Doppelgangas Gu or The Formless Inferno can create combinations that are strong for mitigating damage. This shield could also synergize well with Juggernauts because they have natural physical damage reduction.

 

↖ Damaging Ailments

No Impact on Bleed, Poison, Ignite: Also the damage type conversion of The Flawed Refuge has no effect on the nature or impact of damaging ailments like bleeding, poison or ignite.

 

↖ Damage from Blocked Hits

Caution with Glancing Blows: The shield makes you take full elemental damage from blocked hits. Besides increasing damage taken by those blocks it is also possible to pair it with Glancing Blows that cause more damage than normal block would not have.

 

In summary, one can say, The Flawed Refuge is not the everyday shield that we are used to. It necessitates a tactful method since its power rests in clever builds and knowledge of damage system. Whether it is absorbing greater elemental hits or dealing with elemental penetration, this shield provides several build paths.