Yes I was a big part of those epic ac vs hp debates along with Brael from the sk forums evilgamer.net. We proved sometime after augments came out that it was possible between full ac augments (vs full hp augments) and aas that it was possible on live to completely eliminate DIs 18-20 from raid bosses and skew the percentage of minimum it’s to the 45-50% plus range. Hp centric warriors would see 8-9% hits for max and only 24-32% hits for minimum. At that era of EQ, for both raiding and grouping the correct answer was definitely full balls to the wall ac. At the time I was our guilds top tank and most survivable despite having a few thousand less total hp than my peers. Eventually most of the warriors came to the other side of the fence.
This is p99 though. Completely different era and mobs like AoW exist that have such proportionally high attack that the safest bet is to always stack hp as high as you can absolutely get it.
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