[DeathsSilkyMist]

Posting the level 5 data, both the old data and the new data so it is easy to see. I haven't gotten to the level 6 data yet. It does take a while to collect the data. I am still using 400 hit sample sizes so the damage values are not off from my original data provided.


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23 AC Test
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DV, Count
01, 61
02, 32
03, 30
04, 12
05, 35
06, 35
07, 24
08, 9
09, 38
10, 30
11, 16
12, 78

Total Damage = 2642

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40 AC Test
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DV, Count
01, 124
02, 31
03, 26
04, 22
05, 23
06, 21
07, 30
08, 13
09, 36
10, 40
11, 18
12, 16

Total Damage = 2021

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45 AC Test
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DV, Count
01, 152
02, 29
03, 22
04, 16
05, 26
06, 24
07, 26
08, 7
09, 35
10, 47
11, 11
12, 5

Total Damage = 1818

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50 AC Test
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DV, Count
1, 154
2, 27
3, 29
4, 15
5, 25
6, 24
7, 30
8, 13
9, 40
10, 33
11, 6
12, 4

Total Damage = 1742

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55 AC Test
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DV, Count
1, 167
2, 19
3, 25
4, 17
5, 27
6, 23
7, 28
8, 11
9, 34
10, 25
11, 18
12, 6

Total Damage = 1731

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61 AC Test
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DV, Count
01, 165
02, 28
03, 27
04, 7
05, 26
06, 23
07, 33
08, 11
09, 31
10, 30
11, 13
12, 6

Total Damage = 1711

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178 AC Test
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DV, Count
1, 160
2, 28
3, 27
4, 4
5, 32
6, 30
7, 31
8, 12
9, 24
10, 33
11, 12
12, 7

Total Damage = 1728

So far this is what I was expecting. You can see the rate at which the damage is decreasing is fairly consistent between 23 and 45 AC.

600 Damage / 17 AC = 35 Damage per AC
200 Damage / 5 AC = 40 Damage Per AC

Once we are past 45 AC, we only see one more drop of about ~80 HP, which would translate to 47 AC being my bard's final worn AC value.

What is happening is the AC soft cap kicks in at 45 AC. Haynar said there is a softcap even at low levels.

At low levels the softcap is more level based than defense based.

The softcap for bards is probably the following:

LowPlateChainACSoftcapReturn = 0.23;

I have 45 uncapped AC, and my worn AC is hard capped at 55 on my 55+ AC tests. This means I have 10 softcapped AC, which would be reduced to 10 * 0.23 = 2.3. 45 AC + 2.3 AC is 47 AC rounded down.

I may do a test with a shield to see if I can raise my softcap up to basically the hard cap of 55, but I will need to do that later. I will also do the level 6 tests later.