Tips how to set the best setup for armour plate!!

         Ok, I promised to tell you what armour plate are best yesterday, so, here we go. But first, for everyone who are new in my blog, you can check about armor guide in the link here Guide about armour plate, because that post is important before you read this post. Feel free to read that post first 😉

        First, let's learn the basic, every plate are good in different situation, and give different output depending on what hero you are used. In my case, you need at least one month of playtime (if you are a hardcore, maybe less than) to get full set of level 3 armor plate. Like I said, you can spend 1000 silver to buy as many armor as you can and decompose it, but who want to use silver to buy plate, right? it's better to use silver to buy new hero, since there are a lot of way to get plate shard easily 😏

        You can check your plate effect in detail, you just need to click hero gallery, choose whoever hero you want, and click on "attribute" in this tab, you can see the "blue" text, if you point your pointer there, it will show you the detail information just like in the picture bellow. For HP plate, I will explain this plate in different section.

        Ok, we are going to red plate first, this type of plate is your damage booster. Here is the explanation :

• Plate of Strength  : This plate is good for all infantry hero and cavalry hero, use this plate to increase your hero melee damage. This plate is suitable in Legion War, Siege, Campaign, Territory War, and Ranked mode.
• Plate of Agility    : This plate is good for all archer hero and archer cavalry hero, use this plate to increase your hero ranged damage. This plate is suitable in Legion War, Siege, Campaign, Territory War, and Ranked mode.
• Plate of Dexterity : This plate only good for infantry hero, so you can swing your weapon faster, it give a little boost to archer hero while aiming, but doesn't reduce your reloading time, so meh, don't use it if you are using archer. Also this plate doesn't fit well with cavalry hero, because most cavalry playstyle is "hit and run". This plate is suitable in Hero Arena (Drill Ground) and Ranked Hero Arena mode. So you can swing your weapon faster even enemy can't react to your movement.

        Next, we have yellow plate, this type of plate is your defense booster by increasing your armor. Before that, I will tell you some secret, so, the higher your armor, the less effective it is. Example, if you have base armor 50, and you increase your armor by 10 point, you will get 10% damage reduction, but if you have base armor 70, and increase your armor by 10 point, you will only get 8% damage reduction. There are 2 type of armor, internal (INT) and external (EXT), INT work best against crushing/blunt damage, while EXT work best against piercing/stab damage. Example, 50 INT armor will give you 15% crushing damage reduction and only 9% piercing damage reduction. While 50 EXT armor will give you 7% crushing damage reduction and 16% piercing damage reduction. Both 50 INT and EXT armor will give you 20% slashing damage reduction. (Scroll down if you want to know about this damage mechanics). Now here the explanation about yellow plate :

• Plate of Reflective : This plate is good for hero that have low amount of EXT armor like archer, light cavalry (Zhao Yun, Deng Ai etc.) and assassin (Yu Ji and Hanzo), use this plate to increase your hero damage reduction.
• Plate of Absorbant : This plate is good for hero that have low amount of INT armor like almost all infantry hero and heavy cavalry (Gerald, Lyu Bu etc.), use this plate to increase your hero damage reduction.
• This plate is good for all game mode.

       Then we have green plate, this type of plate is your damage booster by penetrating your enemy armor (ignore enemy armor). Use wisely based on your hero weapon. There are some types of weapon out there, like sword, spear, arrow etc. Here is the explanation :

• Plate of Shattering   : This plate is good for hero that main damage is from stabbing (down side attack) and all archer, use this plate to penetrate enemy EXT armor.
• Plate of Penetration : This plate is good for hero that main damage is from crushing (blunt weapon), use this plate to penetrate enemy INT armor.
• This plate is good for all game mode.

        Last we have HP plate, this plate will increase your hero max HP. Yellow HP plate give you 9 point of HP while green HP plate give you 1.2% from your hero max HP. This type of plate work best in different hero, depending of your hero max HP count. Here is the explanation :

• Plate of Endurance (Yellow)  : This plate is good for hero that have max HP bellow 750 point, if you have 8 plate, so you will increase your HP by 72 point, like from 750 max HP to 822 max HP.
• Plate of Constitution (Green) : This plate is good for hero that have max HP higher than 750 point. The higher amount of max HP you have, more effective it become because it increase your max HP by ... %. Example if you have 800 HP, and you got 8 plate of this, your max HP will increase 76.8 point, become 876.8. but if you have 900 HP, your max HP will increase 86.4 HP, become 986.4 HP.
• Most Archer hero have max HP bellow 750 point, so it is better to use Yellow HP plate rather than Green HP plate, otherwise for almost all cavalry hero and all infantry hero have max HP higher than 750 point, so you can use Green HP plate instead.

        This is the last section, here I will tell you about damage mechanism, here it is : 💣💥

• Slashing damage : This type of damage come from sword, axe and glaive, in ←↑→  attack direction.
• Piercing damage  : This type of damage come from almost all weapon and all spear, in ↓ attack direction, it's called stab damage. Arrow and all other throwing weapon also deals piercing damage. This type of damage deals a lot of damage to enemy who have low EXT armor.
• Crushing damage :  This type of damage come from Catherine pistol, Leonidas and Ma Chao spear and blunt weapon, there are only 3 blunt weapon right now, Frederick I, Kaihime, and Aguda. This weapon come from all attack direction ←↑→ ↓, but for Leonidas and Ma Chao, this is special case, his weapon deals crushing damage in ←↑→, but deals piercing damage in ↓ attack direction. This type of damage deals a lot of damage to enemy who have low INT armor.

Conclusion :

• Use red plate depending on what mode you are playing, and what weapon you are using, for infantry hero, you can combine Plate of Strength and Plate of Dexterity, so you can increase both your attack damage and attack speed.
• Use green plate (penetration type) depending on what weapon you are using, if you use sword or other weapon that deals slashing damage, you can use Plate of Penetration, or use HP plate instead, to boost your survivability.
• Use yellow plate depending on what type of armor your hero lack for.
• If you use tank type of hero like Caesar and Ling Tong, always go for Plate of Constitution to increase your max HP even more, because you already have high amount of armor.

Thank you for reading my article, I hope it can help you, more guide coming soon, see you... 😉💨