Cant Decide! (Bard or Ranger)

[Jimjam]

Agreed, it's not that empirical. It would be better to just face one mob on its own for the 20k damage than have it spread across a bunch of mobs. You do have the avoidance rate and average hit here, which gives the two measures we were discussing (avoidance and mitigation), but you are right the spread would also be salient.

All the stuff there is about lvl 48-51, so not that wide a spread of levels. It is fairly representative of what you would be fighting overall if you were camping hands. Each tank did take 20k or more damage, i.e. 300+ hits, so it was pretty extensive.

It really surprised me to see such a similar average hit across the board.

I believe at 52/53 I was sitting at about 190 AC. More or less ivy etched with easily soloable high AC items like targishan's mask and a couple of crystal chitin items from grouping at velks zone in.

Edit: oh and yeah, I would be interested in testing worn ac vs defensive skill caps, etc if you are too?