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Originally Posted by bcbrown
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I just finished a test against Shiel Glimmerspindel, using a 60 druid. Both sides had 198 worn ac and 61 spell ac for a total of 259. The first side had the lodi shield in the back slot, and the second side had it in the secondary slot. I ended up with 909 hits on the first test and 587 on the second. Back slot had 40 damage/hit, 33.55% min hit, 0.77% max hit. Secondary slot had 39.7 damage/hit, 33.22% min hit, 1.36% max hit.
I was hoping to take 1500-2000 hits per side, but took a peek, saw the hits and intermediate results, and decided to call it there. I'm going to restart the test at slightly lower total AC and compare three treatments: no lodi shield; lodi shield in back slot; lodi shield in secondary slot.
If no-shield and back-slot have the same damage/hit while shield in secondary has lower damage/hit, that means shield AC has an impact on a 60 druid against a 40 mob. If they're all the same that would imply it doesn't have an impact. Either way I'll then do another test with ~20 less worn ac. This'll all probaby be on Sunday; it takes a ton of time so I'm only doing it while watching football.
The preliminary results showed no difference in damage/hit between lodi shield in back slot and lodi shield in secondary slot, which seems to contradict DSM's results. I don't think we can rule out mob-specific AC squelching, but would love for DSM to run some tests at those same AC intervals as he did previously, but against Shiel.
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You should compare equal numbers of hits to check AC mitigation.
That is why I am comparing 400 hits to another set of 400 hits, 1400 hits to 1400 hits, etc.
Your second test has like half of the hits of the first, and we saw with my data that 400 hits can be a bit noisy.
You should compare two sets of 1000 hits, for example. The easiest explanation for your results is due to a significantly different amount of hits for each test, and the second test not having enough hit data to rule out noise.
That is why I did 1400 hits for each test on the level 5 shield/no shield experiment.
https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...8&postcount=68
I'll try to get more data at some point, but kinda busy right now with other things.