Project Vindicator

[Raev]

So I think I will have some spare time in the near future to clean up Sakuragi's Warrior Guide which is somewhat outdated now that Velious is out. Among those updates: I believe AC works now, and I'd like to figure out exactly how well. So I'm looking for parses of warriors tanking Derakor the Vindicator with differing amounts of armor class. Vindi is convenient because he is doable by a lot of guilds and generates a lot of attacks. Also, he can't hit for 450 against tanks who aren't defensive. So, you can boot up GTT and post your percentage of min hits (# hits for 200 / # total hits), max hits (# hits for 450 or 700 / # total hits), and interval hits (the rest).

Example submission: Cucumbers (Iksar)

• AC: unknown (can't see his screen, but probably around 1450?)
• Min Hits: 4.5% (24 / 523)
• Interval Hits: 67.6% (170 / 523)
• Max Hits: 27.9% (146 / 523)

Hopefully we can get posts by warriors all the way from 1100 to 1600 AC, which should allow us to do some pretty good math on the AC/HP tradeoff and maybe roughly where the AC softcap is. Feel free to submit multiple fights with the same character; more data = less randomness. Also please note your race so we can see if the Iksar AC bonus is working.

The one thing I am little worried about here is bard buffs. I'd prefer not to allow them if at all possible. The problem is that the AC calculations client side are unrelated to the AC calculations server side. Example: let's imagine the server softcaps AC at 400, with a 50% return, but the client doesn't softcap it all. Warrior A has 500 AC, effective 450 server side but displayed 500 client side. Warrior B has 400 AC and 50AC from bards, effective 450 server side (thus resulting in the same distribution of attacks) but displaying only 450 on the client (oh god, AC is broken, WTF). So ideally, no bards. If everyone just has Aegolism (and ideally avatar for capped agility or close) then the only variable will be item AC, which is what we want to measure.