Does armor type affect damage mitigation?

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Swiggity [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Someone told me that armor type (i.e., cloth v leather v chain v plate) can affect damage mitigation even when AC is constant. So for example, a Black Enameled Chestplate would mitigate more damage than a Tree Weave even though both have 25 AC.

My immediate impression was that this was just some sort of EQ urban legend, but I thought I'd check to see if there was any truth to it. I do recall hearing somewhere that cloth v leather v chain v plate CLASSES have different damage mitigation even when they have the same overall AC, but I had never heard that two items having the same AC would have different damage mitigation values.

IIRC different classes mitigate damage differently, but I've never seen anything official or parsed to suggest armor type makes a difference.