For the sake of clarity.

When Enchanted Armor "dies", the only reassinged pain, is the pain you just placed, so if you're playing with some buffs and youre running around with 5 or 6 total pain on there, and you take another point of pain that fails you the test and the armor breaks, you're only reassignigng that bit of pain that broke the camel's back, not the whole pile. This is how I read the card initially and it felt real bad.

So anyway, on the actual correctly read card:

There is'nt much to say. Buff your as high as you can, bring Arcane Studies and/or Physical Training to routinely buff yourself to high heaven, and just keep stacking those tokens high! Brother Xavier can help, so can Holy Rosary. I think you can reasonably expect to soak 4-6 total pain in this way before the dam breaks.

The best part is the straight and simple flexibility of soaking both horror and damage, as required at the time, most of you should be familiar with the bad bookkeeping feeling of loosing an ally because you're taking on too much of one kind of pain.

The downside of the card is the severe reduction in playability if you -dont- build into it, a Diana Stanley or Sister Mary will really make it shine, and so can anybody with Physical Training, but outside of those decks and builds, it's a dud card, especially on harder difficulties.

Thinking about fun ways to play this card: Sister Mary/Diana play this card on a damage/horror tank. This card with paradoxical covenant & the favors lets you to auto-pass difficulty 8+ tests.

The tank can play the style of taking enemies onto themselves, maybe running survival knife to hit in enemy phase. Sounds fun!

Edit: Large part of the review was based on the faulty ruling on the internet I found about placing and moving damage. It seems that after all moving does include placing damage. It is intuitive, but because whole process of "taking damage" is so complex in this game I was convinced that placing damage is part of it. Now I focus back on my initial idea.

Most important aspect of this card came unnoticed in other reviews: ability to play it on others. Most of the investigators who can take it basically either have other cards to play into their arcane or body slots or have low willpower or just generally wouldn't make good use of it.

The only investigator that is perfect for this card and has access to is Holy Muldoony ideally paired with Holy Rosary, Favor of the Sun and Ancient Covenant. However, for some reason there is no decklist like that on the ArkhamDB.

Lets look at the list of investigators that would make good use of this card, but have no access to it.

• Calvin Wright: +high willpower if insane; + nothing to put into arcane slot; + Would gladly accept extra protection from other investigators.

• Daniela Reyes mid willpower; +nothing to put into arcane slot; ++high combo potential, she needs those damages.

• Warden (but you can consider assistant too) Hank Samson: mid willpower; + nothing to put into arcane slot; + He really needs tanking support when resolute;

So if you are in a team with one of those investigators, you should highly consider taking this card if you can and if you play one of those talk with your friends about including it in their deck. Remember about this combo, when playing two handed solo!

Who is perfect as a pair? William Yorick can replay this card from his discard pile making Calvin Wright indestructible god. Most investigators can take it, especially Carson Sinclair. In Carolyn Fern it's a little bit of no-bo, as she cannot heal the horror from it. Support Diana Stanley is also a good choice. I don't see it in "Skids" O'Toole or Joe Diamond, but if your buddy wants to play such pair than why not?

This is certainly niche card fitting only certain decks and sometimes asking for extra support, but for some investigators it can really shine. It has been a while since it came out and it is still unnoticed to this day.