u4gm Armourers Scrap Tips for Stronger Defences in PoE 2
Armourer's Scraps are one of those tiny items you ignore right up until you're getting flattened in PoE 2. You can chase bigger upgrades, sure, and people will even pause a mapping session to buy Divine Orb when they're short on key currency, but scraps are the boring backbone of staying tanky. Each scrap adds 1% quality to a piece of armour, up to 20% in normal play, and that quality only boosts the base defence numbers. No new mods, no surprise res fixes, no free life roll—just stronger fundamentals that everything else multiplies. What Quality Really Does This is where a lot of players get it slightly wrong. Quality doesn't "feel" like power because it's not a shiny affix, but it's doing work under the hood. Armour bases get more armour, evasion bases get more evasion, and energy shield gear gets more ES. Then your passives, auras, and other scaling kick in and those base stats snowball. You'll notice it most when you're on the edge—hits...