I guess I should have put these 2 notes in the post above:
1. I was neither for or against the current model
2. I was not trying to say it was accurately modeling live. Just trying to get close.
3. I can post how dodge/parry/rip work in another post, which i'll do later. I think those are actually working correctly and probably nearly live like.
I was merely trying to show AC did do something, partially live like and was trying to get people to test their results vs that to see what they saw matched what the code said, not whether it was an appropriate amount of dmg mitigation
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I personally feel that the above model is going to give wonky results. The main failure with the above code revolves around a the max hit, and to a lesser degree the fact that I2-I19 are flat rather than curved. The current code is fairly accurate when AC nearly equals attack. But as you vary from this in either direction, the code's differnce between live grows dramatically.
In live when you got sufficient AC over a mob you would need it would be nearly 50% min hits with the rest spreading down from there. At really low ACs vs high attack mobs you'd get 90+ max hits, and the rest spread mostly between 16-19. Check steel warrior boards for numerous parses and tests done over the years.
Our problem is the cod requires far too much AC to lower the max hit, as well as giving to little to the min hit. For example at lvl 40 if you were to beat a mob's attack by 450 ac (which probalby means your attacking some lvl 20 mob). You would still have the following chances:
Min hit: 12.3
I2-I19: 60
Max hit 27
Those are ridiculous out of whack numbers for Min/Max hits for beating a mob by that much AC. To be honest, I am not sure tweaking the ACScale formula can bring things back in line, I'd have to get some hard numbers on attacks for various mobs at differnt levels to run some accurate test and see if tweaking those can work. Though rewriting the code might just be the best answer in the long run.
To summarize: I think if you go fight nagafen the current code is going to give a a pretty live like feel as your AC is not too far ou of whack from his attack at 50. However, when you run around in lower guk your gonna get beat on a lot more than you should.
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P.S. As a side note, pets do NOT tank better than players. They do however have a hugely better internal regen and at lowever levels (pre 30) the mage pet only heal is probably more effecent than anything but greater healing. I can tell you when my fire pet runs up against a yellow con, I don't have time to nuke it.. I am chain casting heal
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