Wounds vs toughness vs armor

[hilanokta]

I haven't played for a year or smth close to it (since that patch that moves fist of khaine of DoK to other tree and disabling the controversial addon on server side).

I remember almost everyone were using wounds, but yesterday I checked some people near city (who are supposed to be competitive) and almost no one of them used wounds. Mostly armor with some toughness. Has meta changed? Can someone explain what's better now and for whom? https://null/ https://null/

[Fenris78]

Wounds are still good, since it lets you sustain more moral damage, but now there is a diminishing return on morale bombing (morale damage divided by 2 after a cap), so going over 9k is less interesting.

Armor is still good especially against Destru melee blob, while the amount of armor debuff/ignore is somehow reducing efficiency, but the mitigation per talisman is still good for any class (even after the 25% nerf last year).

Finally, people is naturally drawn towards toughness ; while the raw reduction per talisman is slightly less efficient than others (armor or magic resistance), it works against any hit, and is less prone to reduction, unlike armor.

Toughness works better with higher values, while armor will get less reduced with lower values (weapon skill and armor pen. effects being percentage based), so that's a balance to find between all of them (dont forget your magic resistance too).