greater lightstones

[SCB]

If you're good aligned, turn them in at the dark elves in oasis for the free DE faction hits. Comes in handy.

[Charak]

I ended up turning them in for the book. Farmed the gls for four levels and had about 40 of them. The experience brought me up another level and a half, which I didn't expect. Turning so many in the middle of Nk was also kind of thrilling being so low in level. I got stomped by a hill giant twice

[webrunner5]

I think on P1999 Wu's gear is a total waste of time on here. AC in my opinion is broken on here until like level 45ish. By then Wu's is pretty much useless. So although I guess it is a pretty good skill up to make the stuff, total fail in my mind on here. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[baalzy]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think on P1999 Wu's gear is a total waste of time on here. AC in my opinion is broken on here until like level 45ish.

Not sure about monk, but on my recently created red necro I notice'd a HUGE difference at level 16 just casting Spirit Armor (16ac buff) in my damage mitigation.

It could just be that the mitigation curve is extremely steep based on level so you cap out with relatively crappy gear at low levels and it takes until the later levels when you catch up to the curve and fall behind it in your crap gear.

[Jimjam]

Ah, well Baalzy, there are lots of AC caps. First cap is on your worn AC. Next is on worn AC + spell AC added together.

IIRC on Live if you had a lot of AC agility would have a diminished effect... No one suspected it, but one day a live dev was talking about how AC had changed as Eq got older. Perhaps that even explains why AGI was reputed to have such a tiny increment of benefit; People who were interested in parsing AGI/avoidance were tanks, so were capped out on AC meaning they only benefited from 90 agi insead of the full value?

[Velerin]

I'm pretty sure AC helps at low levels although the level of the mob makes a huge difference. My lvl 30 shammy I've focused on ac/hp and low blues (~25) don't even outdamage his regen, yet add a couple levels to the mob (28-29) and they tear right thru it. Its definitely not linear.

[Jimjam]

AC does help loads at low levels, the thing is at, say 20, even in little more than cloth you have enough AC to mitigate blues fine, but yellows and reds will plough through you no matter how much AC you have.

Assuming n points of AC counter n points of attack, it seems there is a level based AC cap of n, where n is the attack value of a white con mob.

At level 20 you should really need more than a mix of cloth and tattered armor to mitigate blues. I suggest both mob attack values and the level based AC caps are too low.

Sadly I have nothing to evidence this as I ran no parses back during kunark or now on the effects of AC for low levels. Ah well, c'est la vie.