SK - To AC or not to AC

[Solist]

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

AC is broken on p99, the numbers are way off and hard AC has barely the impact that it did on Live

AC hasn't been broken here for 5 years.

And shamans get some of the highest returns for worn AC of any class. Aside from monks and warrior they seem to get by far the best results. Ditto shamans, druids, clerics, rogues... Then some classes AC does absolutely nothing (cough ranger, absolutely zero effect at any level).

I'd say what is broken is mob ATK values here. Kunark dragons, vindi, velious dragons, some velious named etc all just ignore AC as they are so incredibly over tuned. But random other content like velious trash/flurries, dagarn, zland..ac is incredible. It's the ATK values that are completely jacked to shit here, seeminly at random.

The fact that resists are also completely broken on p99 and it's effectively impossible to resist any dragon ae in the game does sway towards stacking HP for a lot of classes though. Even 255's across the board doesn't see much effect on a huge amount of content. Look at old live ntov, sontalak, vp videos from 20+ years ago and dudes in very basic late kunark gear and early velious mismatched junk barely took an AE from Sont.