Project Vindicator

[Raev]

Cucumbers: yes, because a) I don't know your ac, b) you were probably bard buffed/not agi capped, and c) I want multiple parses anyway. Would love a few thousand hits per AC.

Elzhi: I was hoping to just piggyback on normal guild slayings of Vindi. Turn off bard buffs, get avatar to cap agility, and spend the 5 minutes checking GamParse and posting the results. Hopefully we can get 10-20 reported parses and that will be enough to draw reasonable conclusions. Also, AFAIK procs are usually either 'good' (stun, slow, -AC, blind, poison/disease counters) or bad (everything else).

Eisley: when did you go warrior? I can never keep the gigantic army you maintain straight.

Also 'Project Vindicator' just sounds fucking cool. Would be an awesome guild name IMO.

[Lanuven]

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

Also 'Project Vindicator' just sounds fucking cool. Would be an awesome guild name IMO.

Its 10x better than < Monk Death Squad > [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'll submit logs later from my most recent Vindi tank.

[Raev]

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

Its 10x better than < Monk Death Squad > [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'll submit logs later from my most recent Vindi tank.

Zing! Also, it would be really awesome if we could get a screenshot of exactly how to check the min/max hit rate in GamParse. I'll try to make that happen the next time Rustle does Vindi, but it's a little annoying because I can't run GamParse on Linux (though, I haven't tried since my last upgrade of wine).

And yes, the Iksar ac bonus is one of things that would be nice to test. I have no idea if it even works!

[delfi]

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

Eisley: when did you go warrior? I can never keep the gigantic army you maintain straight.

He's talking about differences between Gorruk and Yummytum(my war, PoGrowth armor mostly at the time) I believe. He was able to heal all three monk epic fights with his druid easily with Gorruk using robe and maybe a spot or two. However, Gwan dunked Yummytum hard with just druid robe heals...couldn't keep up with dps.

The differences I've noticed since my monk has gotten raid geared has been dramatic. Anytime someone says AC doesn't matter, I just shake my head. Maybe against AoW/raid bosses I dunno, but against small group content it is massive.

[Raev]

It might be possible to paste this into Excel and make it a bit more readable, but:

Primary ID Secondary ID DPS MH/s Hate/s Rating
Upgraded Gaudralek, Sword of the Sky 68 65.29 63.95 85.61 75.12
Sceptre of Destruction 44 Sceptre of Destruction 44 56.40 53.56 92.96 73.97
Feverblade, Bane of the Shissar 19 Sword of the Shissar 54 52.80 50.70 89.04 70.39
Blade of Carnage 5 Blade of Strategy 6 56.50 52.76 86.09 70.36
Upgraded Palladius Axe of Slaughter 71 66.96 64.80 69.80 67.84
Willsapper 61 Blade of Strategy 6 52.42 49.52 84.52 67.74
Tserinna's Whip 91 Sword of the Shissar 54 38.32 37.61 95.95 66.96
Upgraded Jagged Blade of War 70 54.65 55.32 77.82 66.40
Ykeshan War Club 64 Ykeshan War Club 64 34.32 33.84 62.59 48.34

It tops the charts in pure hate (2nd column from right 95.95 vs 92.96 for double SoDs) but the overall rating (25% dps, 25% melee hate, 50% total hate) isn't quite as impressed. I suspect you might be disappointed in it after actual use; IMHO the worst case (no procs) is the most important which is why the overall rating gives points for melee hate. Still, it's a good find, and Poison based snare is legit. There could be some interesting strategies there.

[Nibblewitz]

Because no one is willing to let the tank naturally gain threat.

[Gain]

Has anyone parsed threat on Infestation?

[jpetrick]

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

Has anyone parsed threat on Infestation?

It's really good. Fast weapon with a massive threat proc (750 hate + dot damage).

[Kelor]

How much do you think the actual iksar AC boost is at 60? i think around 35 - 45?.

[Jimjam]

What it is worth varies (varied) with level. On live worn AC is capped at 23 (level 1) to 239 (level 49) (shields count twice for worn AC in this formula). This hard cap is hidden from the inventory window so it can look like you are gaining more ac from worn items even though you aren't!

For iksar, their racial bonus is added after this hard cap, meaning level 1-49no amount of worn ac will catch you up with the mitigation of an iksar if he is also capped on worn ac.

The bonus starts at 10, then increases by 1 per level from level 11 to 35, capping at 35.

If P99 matches the live dev posted formula, then your thinking of 35 AC is spot on, Kelor.

source: http://everquest.fanra.info/wiki/Armor_Class

Another interesting note, is the devpost claims most NPCs don't exceed 600AC, with the exception of Plane of War NPCs which have a more 'player like' AC of 3000+.