Destiny 2 Database · Armor 3.0

Destiny 2 Damage Resistance Calculator

Damage resistance in Destiny 2 multiplies instead of adding, so your real total is always smaller than the sum of the parts. This calculator runs the exact math for every source in the game.

Toggle what your build keeps active. Chest mods, Woven Mail, Frost Armor, Amplified, your Super, a teammate's Ward of Dawn. The buffs stack with each other, so Frost Armor plus Amplified is a real combo, and the total updates as you click.

Chest mods 0 / 3 sockets

Arc ResistanceFallen captains, Hive boomers, Vex slap rifles − 0 +

Solar ResistanceCabal, Hive wizards, Vex hobgoblins − 0 +

Void ResistanceTaken axions, Vex torch hammers, Hive shredders − 0 +

Stasis ResistanceDread subjugators, stasis crystals − 0 +

Strand ResistanceDread weavers and strand attacks − 0 +

Concussive DampenerAny splash or area damage − 0 +

Melee Damage ResistanceThrall swarms, husks, boss stomps − 0 +

Sniper Damage ResistanceHobgoblins and snipers past 30m − 0 +

Harmonic Resistance is the elemental mod matching your subclass, same numbers. Pick the matching element above.

Subclass buffs stack any you can keep up

Woven Mail Frost Armor Amplified Transcendence

Void Overshield up (45 HP shield that itself resists 70%, about 150 extra effective HP)

Fragments

Spark of Resistance (Arc): 25% while 3+ enemies are within 15 metres Facet of Protection (Prismatic): 15% while 3+ enemies are within 15 metres

Super and team

In your Super (about 90% for most supers) Inside a Ward of Dawn (60%, plus a Void Overshield) In a Well of Radiance (20%, drops to 10% against bosses) Firing through an ally's Banner Shield (about 40%)

Artifact perk one artifact at a time

Sustained Fire25% for 6s. 10 Auto Rifle hits. NPA or Hunter's Journal Total Carnage25% for 11s on Elite+ finisher. Slayer Baron Heavy Ordnance Regeneration25% for 15.5s. MG or Rocket hits. Tablet of Ruin Shoulder to Shoulder25% for 10s. Precision near 2+ allies. Implement of Curiosity Armorsmith10% for 6s on shield break. Queensfoil or Encrypted Disk

Energy Diffusion Substrate: about 5%, passive. Hunter's Journal column 1, so it can only run alone or next to Sustained Fire

One artifact at a time, and these all feed the same Resist buff, so only one counts. The exception is Energy Diffusion Substrate, a separate passive that multiplies with Sustained Fire. Press The Advantage is missing on purpose. It protects your sword guard, not your health bar, so it never touches this math.

Healing over time

None Restoration x1 Restoration x2

Restoration heals, it does not resist. 35 HP a second at x1, 50 at x2, and nothing interrupts it. It earns a spot here because resistance stretches every tick. Turn it on and the results show how much incoming damage you can out-heal. Radiant stays out, since it is a 20% weapon damage buff with no resist part.

Anything else

Exotic, artifact, or activity mod DR 0%

For exotics and activity mods. Omnioculus is 50% while invisible, Cuirass of the Falling Star is 50% after Thundercrash, St0mp-EE5 is 30% airborne, The Stag is 25% in your Rift. The full list is further down the page.

Health stat

Health 0

Total damage resistance

30.0%

The 30% with nothing selected is free. Resilience is locked at 100 for every Guardian now, and this is its old top-end bonus, always on in PvE. Everything you pick multiplies on top.

70%of incoming damage gets through

200HP + shield pool

329effective HP

Where it comes from

Each layer multiplies with the rest, so every new one adds a little less. Mods and the intrinsic 30% work against PvE combatants only, and a labelled mod only counts against its matching damage. Woven Mail covers everything in PvE, precision included, but drops the moment you cast your Super.

Recommended resist mods by activity

Every card loads its mod trio into the calculator. Chest armor has three sockets, and these trios spend all of them.

The picks follow what each faction actually fires, and that part never changes. Boomer knights have been Arc since 2017. Torch hammers are Void. Cabal are Solar.

What rotates daily and weekly is the modifier layer, Threats and Banes, which makes one of those elements hit harder for a stretch. The trio stays right. The priority shifts, so when the active Threat matches a chip below, slot that resist first.

Values verified against the Destiny Data Compendium and light.gg for the final sandbox (game version 9.7.0.3). Bungie never published exact DR numbers, so these are community-tested; the stacking math itself is exact. The game is frozen, so none of this will change again. Where a number is genuinely unknown, we say so instead of guessing.