Ranger ac parsing (I'm serious)

[Duik]

Looks like these nerds got real quiet once I called them out on the fact that they supposedly have access to all these raid.. blsh blah

Nobody cares about red.
If they do they just play it.

Clever people figure out that banging on about DED99 to PVEers is as pointless as a condom vending machine in the Vatican.

Read the room fool.

[Goregasmic]

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

After doing those parses I reread Torven's research which Jimjam had previously linked in a different thread: https://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=40543. Here's the quote that jumps out to me:

Wow, I glossed over that section because it was under pvp (shut up salaryman) but it was there all along. At least we confirmed it worked like this here.

Seeing a mob's distribution we could probably calculate its DB and DI and with enough parsing we could figure out the squelch point for that attack value but I guess mob level is a decent enough proxy for your average mob even if imperfect. It would give us AC gearing targets depending on the content you're going for.

[Goregasmic]

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

I don’t know how many more times I’ve needed to say it.

I’ve parsed on every mob in the game within reason on two rangers, one full of vulak loot and one in kunark shit.

I laughed whenever like full BIS rangers like Aadill took identical damage to a fresh 60 in a fungi.

Yeah but I've always seen 100ac floated as the ranger cap and this guy's chart shows it is at least 200, if not more on higher level mobs. So that's good to know.

Like he said the cap is supposed to be at least 385 for everybody (except purecasters IIRC) so there is no reason it caps at 200 for rangers as by their own formula it falls 50% short. For that reason I'm not sure it matters what happens to other chain classes, the formula just doesn't work as advertised.

I'd like to see 200+AC tested on a 50+ mob to test jimjam's theory of squelched attack but if it doesn't do much on vulak I don't think we'll get anything different.

[Jimjam]

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

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I'd like to see 200+AC tested on a 50+ mob to test jimjam's theory of squelched attack but if it doesn't do much on vulak I don't think we'll get anything different.

Again, devil’s advocate cos i also reckon ranjor ac is borked, but doesn’t vulak have high attack so going above 200+ ac may have as much benefit as upgrading from cloth to tattered leather against him?