What does Armor Piercing and Resistance actually do?

I get that its pretty self-explanatory in the name but there’s also other effects too like additional damage to high defense with the armor piercing stat so I’m wondering if there’s also more gimmicks for the substats

Also because I find them pretty hard to fit in a build

Maaaybe armor piercing works on npcs with high HP (needs testing), which would make it decent for PVE

Resistance seems pretty worthless unless you are running an invincible surge build

Think I’ll fit some armor piercing into gems on my pve build if that is the case

71 armor pierce increased my damage by about 10% on a npc with 1.6k hp

Did you use a combination of power gems with AP or just AP?

armor piercing (from my testing) increases dammage against targets with defense. more defense and more AP increases dammage (idk the exact equation)
Resistance is a counter-AP

a bit of power too

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