AC Seeming to have little to no impact

[Throndor]

Send me a tell if u catch me on this weekend. I can hop over to test with a beta buffed cleric, and my chanter to slow and extend the window which u can keep your tank's propped up if u want a prolonged test.
For the sake of consistency, you probably shouldn't even kill the mob your using to parse, and just camp or blur the mob between parses, although maintaining agro without dmg may be a bit problematic with a warrior/monk.

[Schortt]

The offer is appreciated, but I would encourage you to just collect data on your own as I usually do this whenever I happen to have some spare time and it's often at very random hours. I'll send you a tell this weekend if I remember in any case.

I do always use the exact same mob to run a series of parses, never killing it, and I don't use slows because it just makes parsing sessions take that much longer. Mobs that flurry are actually a plus because you can get a statistically useful number of hits that much faster! If your tank is dying, roll more cleric alts and betacopy/buff them. Boxing on beta is legit, use it to your advantage.

[deadlycupcakez]

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

I did some testing; here's my conclusions after tanking an ancient sentry in ST twice, once with 1166 ac on a warrior, and the other 847.

1166 ac data:
285 hits
253.3894737 avg
316 max
115 min
140 18 14 29
miss riposte dodge parry

fight lasted 20 minutes


847 ac data:

hits miss rip dodge parry
331 180 33 29 34

276.3927492 avg
122 min
316 max

fight lasted 20 minutes




A reason there were more hits is partially due to, on the first attempt, I messed up and died with the mob at ~30%, however the data's extremely comparable.

My conclusion? AC's effectiveness is close to 0.

Except that you took approx 7,600 more damage in the second fight over the same amount of time. Which means over 20 minutes of fighting those mobs you will need at least a few more CH's