Do pets benefit from armour?

[DMN]

Easiest way would be to get 2 same level/type pets. Give one a full set of banded. Then have them fight. pull them apart if the non armor one is about to win. It should only take a few fghts to show a significant difference. if there is none noticed in handful of fights, 99% chance it does nothing to very little.

[RipVanFish]

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

Easiest way would be to get 2 same level/type pets. Give one a full set of banded. Then have them fight. pull them apart if the non armor one is about to win. It should only take a few fghts to show a significant difference. if there is none noticed in handful of fights, 99% chance it does nothing to very little.

This is an excellent idea, I’m gonna ask a guild mate to do this with me lol.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

This was previously tested on Blue. Assuming Green is like Blue regarding Pet equips then two rings can be given to a pet.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...4&postcount=29

--> Credit for discovery on p99 - Tecmos (2014)

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I haven't tested it again lately, to be fair, but I don't think it was ever a mentioned change if it has changed. I assume pets will take two earrings and bracers, just like with rings, as well; but again, I haven't tested those.

I've never tested whether things like worn AC (let alone strength or dex) affect pets. Have seen plenty of people claim it does, nobody prove it doesn't, but haven't tested or seen any tests that I can recall where someone parsed a pet taking damage for an extended period. Wouldn't be hard to throw a mage pet (and a charmed pet, they could be different) at a mob and let it take hits for 15 minutes while a friendly cleric keeps healing, then repeat after giving the mob a full set of banded or something to see if the damage taken is different. I guess DMN's idea could work too, but it seems like too short of a test to notice a 5% or even 10% difference given p99 RNG. Even 10 minutes of parsing seems likely to establish whether there is a difference, though it'd really be a pain to test how much of a difference AC gives by slowly adding more and more AC to a pet each test.

[Ligma]

Way back in the day I saw a screenshot of an epic pet that bugged out and left a corpse. It was pre equiped with armor. Most likely the AC does next to nothing.