Guys you really need to all take a step back and stop theorycrafting all of these non-shield-based Murmillo builds.
Please recognize for a second how absurdly strong multipliers are in this game. Stack High Guardās 330% with Murmillo helmet +400% on umbo blow and youāve got a +730% damage multiplier, multiplicative with the 3 strike damage debuffs from Rode3 and Murmillo. Umboās 500 base damage goes up to 4150 + 830% of your character sheet damage. Letās say youāve got 2,000 damage which is maybe what youād have with no equipment at all at rank 8, so a pretty low estimate - thatās over a 20k damage Umbo Blow. Now multiply that by our +250% strike debuffs and youāve got over 70k damage. Crit? Over 100k damage. And it hits twice on staggered (anything that you successfully block) enemies, and has 2 overheat and a 12 second cooldown.
And thatās ONE SKILL. Murmillo + Rode debuffs effect almost all Pelt and Rode skills. The damage potential is insane. Just slapping Murmillo on to some random build would be like taking Shinobi on a build with no skills that can be cloned.