Ignore the tedious guy begging anyone to care about his silly shields and let's keep talking AC parsing. Here's two short parses on my 60 druid, one with 146 worn and 61 spell ac, and one with 99 worn and 61 spell ac. On the 54 cleric, 132 + 64 was noticeably below the squelch point, and 163 + 64 was either at or above the squelch point.
If the druid isn't being softcapped, 60 druid at 146 + 61 should be in between those two graphs, and that is indeed what it looks like. The second parse at 99 + 61 was meant to be the same as the 106 + 64, but I messed up and took off one too many pieces of armor. It looks like this is slightly below the midpoint where there's an equal number of max and min hits, which again tracks with the cleric results. Both druid parses are only around 250 hits, so they're pretty noisy.
So now that is parses on three classes, with plate, chain, and leather armor types. None of them show any signs of a softcap. They show that for at least this single mob ac up to around 200-250 gives an improvement in damage taken, in the form of what would otherwise be max hits turning into min hits. All three have identical defense skills of 200.
Next steps: one, upgrade my ranger to see if he can either hit the squelch point or show signs of being softcapped. Second, do some more parsing on a tougher mob. Froglok hunter/forager are level 45 instead of 40, so I think that's who I'll try next.
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02-28-2025, 07:05 PM
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