Utaku

I use +10 vs elemental damage, for two reasons.

1. As I usually don't target enemies, elemental damage is harder to anticipate and RoF than physical damage from warriors charging you.
2. Female Wanderer's armor is the armor skin I prefer

the_jos

I've been using the +energy armor on my monk the most.
Combined with a sup rune on the headgear.
Depending on the team, I can survive (know how to kite and avoid damage).
I've not reached the Desolation yet, so I cannot tell how the armor would perform in high-end Nightfall.

Ensign

If it's a tossup between elemental armor and physical armor on a caster, I tend to take the elemental armor in PvE. The most dangerous physical damage is melee, and unlike good PvP characters PvE melee is easily kited. Also, the balance of power is different from PvE mobs than in PvP. PvE physicals do not have max weapons, those weapons do not have 15>50 or equivilent mods, and they certainly aren't customized. So just in a vacuum a typical PvE physical enemy deals around a third less damage than an equivilent player of that level would be expected to do. Combined with how random elemental damage is the most likely to hit you in the backlines, and I'm favoring elemental armor in a vacuum these days.

While elemental damage scales up very quickly with level differences that makes high level caster mobs really dangerous, the critical hit rate of high level physicals also scales up quickly, so it roughly breaks even.

Peace,
-CxE

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