by Darvin on Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:18 pm
Because damage resistance is applied before resistance, the platemail is indeed worse for resist stackers.
Take a 40% resist level 10 character attacking a 100 damage boss. With nothing additional, you take 60 damage.
With the platemail, the damage is reduced to 80 and then you take 40% of that, which is 48 damage. The platemail, due to the order of operations, was only a 12 point reduction, not 20.
With the dragonshield, you go up to 58% resists. You take 42 damage from that 100 damage enemy, which is actually better than the platemail. Against higher damage enemies or for lower-level characters, this improves further.
In general platemail is better, but for resist stackers the dragonshield is still your better bet.