blade of carnage bad at lvl 60?

[Legidias]

High end content at like lvl 65+ don't give a shit about your mitigation (at least from a difference of 50AC). The level difference basically makes it so they either miss or hit max damage.

[Arkanjil]

[Wed Dec 05 08:20:55 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:55 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 479 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:55 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 704 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:56 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:56 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 344 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:56 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:56 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:56 2018] The Avatar of War tries to hit YOU, but misses!
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:56 2018] The Avatar of War executes a FLURRY of attacks on Darkmannx!
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:56 2018] The Avatar of War tries to kick YOU, but misses!
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:58 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:58 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:58 2018] You slash The Avatar of War for 72 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:20:58 2018] The Avatar of War tries to hit YOU, but YOU riposte!
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War tries to hit YOU, but misses!
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 546 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 524 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War executes a FLURRY of attacks on Darkmannx!
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:00 2018] The Avatar of War tries to bash YOU, but YOU riposte!
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:01 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:01 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 569 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:01 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 434 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:17 2018] The Avatar of War bashes YOU for 302 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:18 2018] The Avatar of War tries to hit YOU, but YOU dodge!
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:18 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:18 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 456 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:18 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 591 points of damage.
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:18 2018] The Avatar of War hits YOU for 726 poi
[Wed Dec 05 08:21:18 2018] The Avatar of War executes a FLURRY of attacks on Darkmannx

At 1487ac, here's some rounds from AOW while defensive. 726 is his max hit while defensive.

[Jimjam]

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

High end content at like lvl 65+ don't give a shit about your mitigation (at least from a difference of 50AC). The level difference basically makes it so they either miss or hit max damage.

Only 50% of hits were max in the examples given, so I guess there was some mitigation...

However, isn't such content clear strategy designed around landing a cheal on the tank every round and hoping for a couple of misses when flurry 'procs'?

Conversely in group content I remember trying to investigate AC while levelling up my ranger. I wanted to see how different races mitigate; it turned out in KC that any 51+ melee took the same average hit of ~78 damage. The only thing that separated melees for tanking was how much hp they had (so how often they needed chealing) and their ratio between hits and misses (their avoidance: largely a product of their defence skill and whether they had block or parry).

It looks like in either context AC is of limited value; it is trivial to accumulate enough AC to tank xp content and in raiding you just want enough hp to survive a worst case scenario round ready for the cheal chain?