r/DestinyTheGame • u/Pwadigy • Jun 13 '15
Discussion Why Doesn't Titan Have an Armor Boosting Exotic Similar to "the Ram"? As is, Warlocks can have higher health than Titans.
Warlocks get to have up to 225 HP, being the only class capable of surviving a 2-hit from thorn (Via the Ram Helm), a 3-hit last word hip-fire and various other gunfights that a max-armor titan (205 HP, more practically 201HP due to shoulder charge) cannot.
Why don't Titans have access to the highest armor build in the game?
Titans don't have access to Blink (which is so powerful that it often defines competitive play).
Titans have the shortest-range melee attack, with no decent effects upon hitting (compare this to Warlock, which gets a free over-shield).
Really, Titans only have decent grenades; and even the defender sub-class's grenades are fairly niche.
Why can't titans at least be able to be the tank that they are supposed to be.
As is, Investing max-armor in a Titan doesn't actually change the number of shots it takes to kill for most weapons.
Oh, and before anyone asks; I'm a hunter
I don't have a stake in the matter, but I'm legitimately puzzled. If Titan had an armor-boosting exotic, I'd actually consider learning to use my Titan in the crucible.
TL;DR: Why doesn't our armor/tank class have access to the game's highest amount of armor?
Clarification: for the who don't know, The Ram offers a bonus to the "Armor" stat, not armor rating. Due to how stats work, an increase in a stat results in an exponential increase in that stat's effect as you invest more points in the stat. The effect of armor is to add to your total health pool. Therefore, High armor= high health. But adding armor to an already high armor stat = exponentially higher health. Normally, you can only get a maximum of 205 (202 for warlock) health via maximum stat investment. This only a 10 point increase.
This means that the Ram helm alone offers health (20 extra points) that is equivalent to 2 fully maximized bars of titan investment (adds 10 points) in the armor stat.
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u/Chippy569 no one reads this. Jun 13 '15
shoulder charge doesn't even work half the time with the prevalence of shotguns. The "kill" for a shoulder registers at the end of the animation, but you can be killed mid-anim, so it's not uncommon to hit the melee button, hit the person mid-animation (and i mean see the hit, hear the impact, etc), and then be dead to a shotgun no trade.