Update: Apparently I need more sleep or coffee (or both), since S3 ring already have armor penetration ><. So yeah, it makes Angelista hardly an S4 item, still a decent replacement for S2 ring till the end of S3.

The forums are currently stormed by a bunch of whiners QQing about S4 having high (like 1600 for a chest is high) rating requirements, but that’s not what I’d like to talk about.

Patch 2.4 along with it’s badge rewards introduced one nice item: [Angelista's Revenge]. Some people might compare it to [Veteran's Band of Triumph], I’d rather compare it to [Vindicator's Band of Triumph], as with S4 we will have access to S4+S3 rings. So, let’s look at the stats, the difference between Angelista and Vindicator’s Band are:

- 6 stamina
- 22 resilience
- 0.3% crit (-26 crit rating + 29 agi = 0.88 -1.18%)
+ 14 attack power
+ whooping 126 armor penetration
+ 70 armor penetration

So yeah, the ring is pretty cool, kinda suboptimal for PvP if you consider the lack of resilience, but 126 armor pen is half of the whole S3 set. How much damage is 126 armor pen? Nothing really hard to count, against an enemy with 5k armor:

Armor reduction without reduction: 32.14%
Armor reduction with reduction: 31.58%

DPS increased by 0.82%

Obviously, that % is going up the more armor pen you stack and the less armor the target has (and vice versa), executioner, sunders and armor penetration gear all work perfectly well with each other. Pretty decent ring, I might not want to force myself to do heroics for it, but since we now can get badges from dailies, I’ll probably get it sooner or later.

Update: Just noticed I never linked my Armor Crab Calculator, so there you have it, for all your crabby needs!

Terhix