More light armour players and less heavy armour players due to their dps nerf, makes it feel like the damage has spiked. And a lot more spear bleed and poison from artifact. In addition to nature's wrath FS among others. Overall, the challenge of fight is way tanking is fun. If it was easy, no one would appreciate combat tanking.

Tanking indeed became way harder than before due to the changes. Now everyone is about one-shotting one another.

Your max health begins to show once you reach your health without any health perks. So I have 4 health perk on body, 2.5% each. Then 7% on amulet. That is total of 17%. So at ~23k, 17% is ~4k. So they will see my health at 23k- 4k=19k. For your build, add the total amount of %health perks you are wearing and subtract that from your max and the remaining health is what opponents need to get you to in order see your health bar. The %health perks act like an invisible shield essentially.

Yeah I would hold off on buying anything. On October the whole gear score will rise to 725. You can wear frigid dawn and put health

You don't need it. 350 con passive and WH grit passive on heavy attacks both provide enough grit protection. Most of the time you taking damage when relocating or while blocking

Most likely it was nature wrath. It will increase their base damage significantly. For Fire Staff, they can aim pillar of fire to hit behind you and go through block. However, to counter that, you need to constantly be moving while blocking. That will allow you evade the attack without taking any dmg. A good rule of thumb is, the more dps they do to you, the squisher they are. So try to land a few combos when they have abilities on cooldown.

@@atlasfishmo Ok thank you for this advice

Having it on the chest allows the buff to remain on weapon swap. The buff increases stamina regen 42% when you block at low stamina. So if you are on your sns bar, you block and proc it, then switch to warhammer, you can dodge and attack using med heavy to track. It stacks with 250 str passive to further increase stamina regen. Also, it works to directly counter exhaust debuff from many weapons, particularly BB. It's good all round. But you have to keep it on the chest to make the most of it

@atlasfishmo that is some high tier info ty for sharing. I'm def going to try this out. Keep up the vids I'll cya in opr 🫡

100%. It was a last minute change from having all moonstone. But yes, you are correct

Elemental aversion, enchant ward, health is better for well rounded damage reduction. Inv doesn't help against players who have extended debuff duration.

My amulet has thrust protection, and chest has physical aversion. Thurst attacks in general are very common, but they do very low stamina damage. With surefooting and battle mobility, you can easily relocate to line of sight while blocking thrust attacks. Invigorating would take away from either health or elemental aversion or enchant ward. All those perks protect against burst damage allowing you to counter. You need to add a significant amount of invogorating pieces to notice a difference. Unlike the other perks where even one piece has a noticeable effect. If dots/debuffs are effecting you, use trenchant recovery on sns and spam heavy attacks to remove them. You can also use purify crit and remove several at once with a crit heavy on sns. In fact, fighting GS if you do this, it's near impossible for them to maintain bleed stacks because sns heavy attacks are just as fast as offensive stance. You can also add purify to amulet instead of divine. Lastly, use desert sunrise, the highest tier.