So I know this may be beating a dead horse here, but I found something on the old castersrealm comment threads that may be of interest.
This link popped up in the magician bugs thread and it had to do with Magician phantom armor.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20010523050159/eq.castersrealm.com...
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Recently Abashi has stated that AC is made up of two numbers. The first part is your ability to avoid blows. This number is mainly a combination of your AGI and you defense skill. The second part is the amount of damage absorbed by your armor. This is defined by the things you wear that give you AC. Warriors and Monks can have the same AC but the Monk will avoid more blows but get for near full damage. The warrior will avoid less blows but get for less then full damage more. These phantom spells give you the damage absorbtion side of AC, which is generally thought of as more usefull then the blow avoidance type of AC. I always use this spell when soloing and sometimes when in multi-mob situations.
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This may explain why we are having problems with AC not working correctly? If what this guy is saying is true then your total AC is not just what effects the amount of damage that you take, but AC from agi/defense has an effect on chance to hit and ac from armor/spells affects damage taken. This is figured separately on the server, but you are just given a single number on your inventory screen.
*EDIT: Just incase some of you don't know Abashi was a Verant employee. I think he was in charge of public relations or something like that.