Ranger ac parsing (I'm serious)

[sogundordor]

Big thanks to Snaggles and Jimjam~ you remind me some important things: spell ac and sample size~

1. in the beginning, i was design to test is it my ranger stacking ac can have better mitigation, so he has all the buff including son/coe/coat/skin and sow, there is about 70ac
2. Plan B sk test, i was focusing on the 200 worn ac point, and sk has no self buff, only jboot
3. About sample size, each data take after the mob swing 500+ times, that is about 200+ successful hit

I have some new interesting data, my friend joined the test and got some new data beyond 400 worn ac, its a good news, and bad news is today is the last day of my lunar new year holiday, i can't continue test in a short time~

friend is a high end raider, paladin with 538 worn ac with self buff (59ac i guess)
we have not enough time, can only test from 443-538 worn ac, and we increase the sample size to 700+ swing
i try to put all data in the same graph and adjust y-axis we can easier to compare

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1. lines in the graph is not smooth, clearly sample size is not large enough
2. from 100-200 worn ac, ranger and sk both has decreasing trend, ranger has about 70ac spell ac, i believe spell ac is working at this range
3. from 200-400 worn ac, although can't see a clear decreasing trend, average hit is getting lower very slightly, sample size larger is better, spell ac seems has no effect at this range
4. sk=knights=pally, i believe they the the same, pally can reach a new record when stacking over 500 worn ac, theres a decreasing trend, and some missing data between 367-443 worn ac
5. if spell ac is working on pallys part it will decrease average hit, from the graph average is getting lower as ac higher, i believe its worn ac working
6. about ranger, still need more data

conclusion:
1. i believe there is a soft cap at 200 worn ac, and ac return after soft cap is far lower than i think before
2. ranger maybe have lower return after soft cap, it need to continue to test
3. spell ac works good below 200 worn ac

*warrior riposte chance lower? sample size or facing issues make sense~ warrior suppose to be higher~
*about "Riposte+Parry+Dodge" thing, i was thinking its related to defense skill, knights and warrior both 252 max, but i have no idea how to proof it yet, just call it secret class difference =P