Talk:Armor/@comment-83.208.84.40-20181217133938/@comment-2605:A000:1316:855:4196:AA92:586F:5766-20181218000708

In DST - A football helmet with a backpack will give you the same aborption as a football helmet. Wearing the backpack will not in any way reduce the effectiveness of your damage mitigation. Your damage mitigation is purely based on the item you're wearing with the highest % mitigation.

The durability loss is split between the items, but the mit is the highest between the two, period. This means that if you want to preserve a more valuable item that uses a rarer resource - like a football helmet - you can wear it with a grass suit, while still getting the full mit of the football helmet. Helps stretch those pig skins out a bit more that make that helmet, sharing the durability loss with a grass suit so that the football helmet lasts longer - while still getting the full mitigation of the helmet!

In DS - The last item equipped is what mitigation value is used. So just be sure whatever mitigation you want to use is the last one you equip. For example, if you're putting on a grass suit and a football helmet, you want to put on the helm last, because that mitigation value is better.

Last but not least, there are mods out there that tell you the mitigation value on items. DS - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408066317&searchtext=item+tooltips  |   DST - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=360722606&searchtext=tooltips

These are must-haves imo, as they tell you on the fly the damage, mitigation, and uses left of an item. For a newbie, indispensable for obvious reasons - no having to reference the wiki to figure out which items are better for mitigation or damage. For a grizzled veteran they won't be quite as useful as they may have much of this memorized, but even for them it will tell you the specific amount of uses left, which can still be useful for weapons that don't have a clear-cut 1% durability = 1 use.

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