AC is trash unless you are fighting trash.

except ranger* but ya already know that

If this the target reader, sure do whatever you want.

If this is a rando knight with 4500hps instead of 5500 raid buffed get some chardok drops and rethink your goals. The CH chain won’t be any different if you have high or low AC, you just will probably die more often.

Also, the AC displayed isn’t even the number that is used. Same goes for ATK. HP on the other hand is pretty accurate.

Can you elaborate on ranger AC being broke?

Most of the seemingly good ranger guides out there are like "if you want to have a good time as a ranger build it like a tank" but then everyone says you'll be fear/bow kiting to 60 so at that point str/dex/mana seems to make more sense?

Claims are made that after a very low amount of worn AC rangers get no further benefit, almost as if they have a very low cap on worn ac with no post cap returns. Or something like that.

Certainly my ranger gets whaled on by easy mobs, despite having a fair whack of AC gear, but even a small amount of spell AC seems to help /shrug. anecodotal / unmeasured / untests on my part, but I've seen others present evidence, such as parses of rangers tanking worse than shamans (perhaps the shaman was just better buffed? idk).

I almost wonder if rangers were designed to capitalize on avoidance AC. From a DnD perspective that would make sense. They are supposed to be good at dodging and parrying, rather than heavily relying on armor. That's why they get the Weaponshield disc.

If they were designed around avoidance AC, that may be why the have a lower worn AC cap. Sadly avoidance AC doesn't do much on p99, so Rangers just get screwed over.

The consipiracy theory is we are using a nerfed version of dodge, etc from titanium era where they wanted to increase the skill caps (since max level had increased), but didn't want dodge and the like to become overpowered so just scaled down lower skill levels to stretch out the benefit of increased skill a little longer. Or something like that.

i mean you can have 1400 ac but it wont help like on a knight or war or shm, AC is just broken on ranger specifically. feel free to parse and test its already been done tons and dont really feel like rehashing.

Haven't ever actually parsed my ranger but it seems to get absolutely smushed even in xp group content compared to warrior, pal, monk, sham, or even my bard with similar ac. This was observed from all the way up to 60 on all of the above classes.

Again ... I haven't parsed but it certainly 'feels' really 'not right' for the ranger class specifically.