Imbalanced Guard

Imbalanced Guard is a keystone passive skill that doubles your armour value against hits, but caps all damage reduction effects at 50%.

Mechanics

In general, the only damage reduction a character will have is physical damage reduction, either directly or from armour. Transcendence and apply armour to elemental damage, in which case both the double armour and reduction cap will apply.

Resistances are not considered damage reduction, so Imbalanced Guard will not cap resists. Reduced/less damage taken modifiers also don't count against the maximum damage reduction.

Location

Imbalanced Guard is located at the middle layer of the southwest part of the tree, to the left of the transition path between Duelist and Marauder, next to the Soul of Steel cluster.

Class	Distance from start
Marauder	9
Duelist	10
Scion	14
Templar	16
Ranger	18
Shadow	24
Witch	24

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Imbalanced Guard:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.11.1	Fixed a bug where the unique Simple Robe granted a Keystone named "Sacred Bastion". This keystone is meant to be named Imbalanced Guard (as seen on the passive skill tree).
3.11.0	Introduced to the game.