>ARMOR
>
>This is from a monk friend of mine. It seems at higher level, the
>actually number doesn't really matter as much. The stats however do.
>Agility and Dex become more and more important in melee it seems.
>Nowadays, the mobs I fight bash me really hard whether I wear the best
>possible AC giving armor or not. It seems that our AC does not rise at
>the same speed as the ATK of the mobs we fight. I depend so much on a
>healer in our group, otherwise I'm stuck with fighting really low blues
>with one or two other melee classes. This makes sense since as you rise
>in level, your defense points adds more to your total AC than the armor
>you are wearing. At lower levels, you hardly had any defense points so
>the AC of the armor played a large role in your overall AC. This
>changes in the higher levels because you gather so many defense points
>that they make up most of your AC and not the armor you wear.
>
I am going to have to disagree on this one, i think ac is now more
important for me than the stats. Before i got an almost full suit of
imbrued my ac was not that high because i always chose stats over ac. Last
night i got almost 60 ac points added to my totat from the armour and i
could actually tell a difference. This was after 5 hours of killing kobolds
and i could easily tell that the ac was working. I was floored, normally i
cant tell a difference from stats, but the ac improvement was obvious. And
i got insane stats now, especially dex which is at 175, and way over 200
after buffs and songs. I know agil is important for ac but i can get that
over 190 with buffs and it didnt make near as much difference to me as that
50 ac. Course i was hardly scientific about it, but after 5 hours of
playing you get a pretty good fealing of the differences.
>
>GROUPING
>
>As you level higher and higher, the level gap becomes wider and wider.
>I group regularly up to 5 levels above me and I still get decent exp.
>At lower levels, anything more than 2 levels is unheard of but it
>becomes more and more common and the exp isn't bad. Maybe someone can
>actually drop official numbers but from personal experience it's not
>bad at all.
>
I dont care about the levels of people i grouped with, i still always got
xp. I just want a group :)
>
>Ok some favors to ask now. Can I please see a screenshot of the bard
>armor? I want to see how cool I will look in the future hopefully if
>I'm lucky. Unfortunately, I'm a fashion addict (and I'm human too hence
>my armor is mostly lacking in the fashion department) and I would
>really like to see the bard only armor looks.
>
Well i put up a set of bmps of what i look like at
http://www.jrh.net/eq/imbrued.zip, which also has stats on everything but
the bracers,arms, and gloves. I dont have the gloves and arms yet. I am a
human also, the wood elves seem to look much cooler imo.
>I know the Mistmoore Battle Drum is great and the Princess Lute doesn't
>seem to be anything but a quest item. What about Brahm's horn? Is it
>brass or is it a wind instrument (like the mino horn)?
>
>
>
>Darrian Ashoka
>
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