On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Abraham Hardjana wrote:

>
> Astute observation John. It has me wondering now, what is your agi then?
> I still seem to be okay even with almost a full set of bronze (minus
> gloves and mask). However I haven't noticed being hit much more than I
> did before, perhaps a higher AGI helps compensate for being really close
> to your max weight allowance. Just for reference my AGI is 100 base and
> 102 at the moment with the aid of an earring. The other thing that I can

95 base, 99 with earrings, 117 when a ranger friend casts feet
like cat on me.

> admit is the fact that I rarely dodge in combat. So it appears that
> encumberance plays a role with it. I have 84 STR with all bonuses. With
> my armor, weapons and supplies I weigh in at 79.

When I was in mostly banded, I was usually at 49/73 weight.
Going to plate took me to 68/73 (68/77 thanks to some str
rings my friends gave me). This is all before I've picked up
any loot. With banded, I'd usually see myself dodge once or
twice in a fight. Now that I think about it, the last time I
remember seeing myself dodge was over a week ago(!).

Bear in mind that our experience is relative. I didn't start
wearing plate until I had three pieces (breastplate, greaves,
pauldron) because I was vain and didn't like the way bronze
chest and banded leggings looked. :-) So I went from mostly
banded to mostly plate rather quickly. If you went piece by
piece like most people seem to do, you may not have noticed.
If you got plate early (so your AC was high enough that mobs
were just hitting for less because it was way beyond their
"level" range), you may not have noticed either figuring the
extra damage was just due to the mobs being tougher.

I'll try getting a full suit of mesh from Guk and playing with
that and report back in a week or so.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...