Another Agility Thread

[Snaggles]

Damn nevermind. Focus doesn’t add AGI, lol. Someone revoke my shaman license.

[Salaryman]

I switched from Belt of the Great Turtle and Sentry Leggings, to Sentry Girdle and Tolonds Leggings of the gloid, im taking alot less damage form Guard Captain latori and the higher lv guards in paineel on my 60 Ranger

[Duik]

Red.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

A 60 shaman can buff over 129 agility and heal a monk against a normal blue con forever.

There is nothing stopping anyone from parsing this. Aside from it being silly and painfully boring.

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

Damn nevermind. Focus doesn’t add AGI, lol. Someone revoke my shaman license.

Use Primal Avatar and Deliriously Nimble for 152 AGI. Wouldn't be hard to get to 103 AGI base with gear + starting stats. Would be an interesting test to see how much AGI actually does on P99.

[Jafir]

Velious era had a hard cap on AC, but P99 has a soft cap. The hard cap was not that difficult to hit, so Agility probably did next to nothing for mitigation AC in live. I don’t actually know what Avoidance AC correlates to in terms of a mob missing you. If P99 uses the code I linked and converted the hard cap to a soft cap with their diminishing returns agi still would max out at ~13 mitigation ac. Hardly anything to write home about, but also not nothing.

[Snaggles]

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

Use Primal Avatar and Deliriously Nimble for 152 AGI. Wouldn't be hard to get to 103 AGI base with gear + starting stats. Would be an interesting test to see how much AGI actually does on P99.

Good call. I’d burn a few emeralds for science [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I still think the only real practical question is if agility buffs are worth the slot they take up. Ultimately there are a finite number of gearing options on p99 so taking agility usually comes at a detriment to another stat, outside a few weird pieces with bonus agility. I expect it’s a minimal effect if that, otherwise this server would be flooded with halfling warriors.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

Good call. I’d burn a few emeralds for science [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I still think the only real practical question is if agility buffs are worth the slot they take up. Ultimately there are a finite number of gearing options on p99 so taking agility usually comes at a detriment to another stat, outside a few weird pieces with bonus agility. I expect it’s a minimal effect if that, otherwise this server would be flooded with halfling warriors.

Agreed on the point about buff slot limits. I usually cast the AGI buff on myself when doing hard solo content simply because I have the buff slot available. Might as well eek out whatever slim benefit I can get if it isn't blocking a better buff. I am usually at 13 or 14 buffs when self buffed, with 1 slot available for Torpor.

In a group or raid that spell slot used by the AGI buff would be taken by a buff Shamans cannot cast on themselves, like C2. Regardless of how people end up parsing 255 AGI, I don't think raid buff rotations will change, simply due to the buff limit. Best case scenario is groups/solo players will cast AGI buffs more often if people have the buff slots available.