Assuming you have no damage reduction (which is a big assumption), an Armored Vindicator does 528,788 damage to you on Apocalypse+25.
So Thorns would be returning 1,057,576 damage to the Armored Vindicator.
But that same Armored Vindicator has over 6,000,000 health, so Thorns is only doing about 14% to them, ASSUMING you don't have Iron Hide Amulet to cut the damage that he does to you (and himself) in half.
That's not enough to make a real difference, when you have weapons that are doing 4 million DPS or more. At that point even Burning would be adding more DPS.
But here’s the thing. It’s not good. It is worse than most armor enchantments. It’s not as bad as Final Shout, Protection, Explorer, Recycler, Gravity Pulse, etc. but it certainly ain’t even close to being good.
Irrelevant to the point that, out of all the notifications I get daily, about half of them are from people just mentioning me where I'm not even present. Either in reference to a guide, a video, a build, a calculation, or a point I've made, or referring people to me to explain something in greater detail.
Which is, among many things, something I'm widely known for in the MCD community.
It's because I've contextualized most things in the game, like the DPS boost of Committed on average, the DPS boost of Voidstrike on all weapons minimum, the chance for Stunning to stunlock mobs for all weapons, the DPS boost you get from Shock Wave/Swirling on all weapons, the speed boost you get from Echo on all weapons, the average DPS boost of Pain Cycle and the specific boost it gives to certain weapons (like Maces), the damage values of every mob, the HP/damage buff mobs get per Trial Tier and Threat Banner, the way certain damage buffs stack, how damage reduction buffs act more like "armor" and how they stack, and stuff like the effective damage Thorns adds, and so on.
That's not to toot my own horn. Just that that kind of info all originated from me. It's second nature to me to go more in depth, so others who reference it tend to either not wanna go deeper in case of getting it wrong, or reference me to summon me because I'm "the math guy" who can break things down with numbers lol.
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u/Apprehensive_Gas_590 5d ago
Chilling is the only good enchant I'm afraid. I think your better off just hunting for a better Wither Armor in the Lower Temple Secret Level