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Originally Posted by Naethyn
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Ranger should be the least impacted by negative AC as they are only just above cloth when it comes to how much real ac they get.
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Yeah it seems like most people with a lot of experience with melee in EQ think AC isn't very important on a ranger. When I did a little parsing I didn't find any ranger-specific limitations on AC, but I was also comparing to a druid and a cleric so I don't have a high degree of confidence in my conclusions. I found that there's a hit distribution where roughly a third of hits are either for min or max value, and that adding AC shifts hits from max value to min, and that once there's <3% hits for min value adding AC doesn't help.
My interpretation of the "don't bother gearing rangers for AC" school of thought is that when raiding you're either not getting hit or you're bumping, so it's not a priority. That makes a ton of sense, but I'm not 60 yet so I'm still gearing AC for when I'm tanking.
I'd love to hear your detailed thoughts on ranger AC, and perhaps your thoughts on the parsing I did in
this thread.
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Originally Posted by zelld52
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There are entire pages of this post that are hidden from me. Ah, well. Was it anything good?
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Just the usual.