Does shard armor level really matter?

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Well a perfect of a higher one would be better than a perfect of the lower. And the real difference is the (EDIT: changing from attack power to level of weapon) . I’ll try to find where Riley talked about it when TM came out and add it here in an edit. EDIT: I had the concept right but the specifics wrong. Here is the information given out before - In regards to the stat ranges before (To be fair I’m assuming it will continue this trend)- In regards to the gear being stronger - BONUS What …

Here is a post in the past where I compiled some of the things Riley said about it.

(And here is the important part)

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At the same time though the effectiveness of Armor is based on your base level (20), so having 20.25 Armor is actually more effective than that.

So I guess basically the raw Armor value just went up a little, but it’s better than that would seem to indicate in terms of effect.

And i’d say based on experience - between most shards and normal raid it doesn’t much matter what your armor is like since most things end up being a 1 shot kill anyway. The weapons do make a bigger difference though.