I associate the AGI stat as how good you are controlling your legs and body.
I associate the DEX stat with how good you are with your hands. If Dodge is
affected by a primary stat, it seems to me that AGI is the most likely one.
With that said, everyone knows that not everything in EQ is logical. Case
in point is the vodka recipe that is the current hot topic on the brewers
list. People have been trying for weeks to discover this recipe. All kinds
of logical ingredient combinations were tried. This week the recipe was
discovered/leaked by Verant. One of the ingredients for vodka is short
beer. No way in hell would anyone ever think to include beer as part of a
recipe for vodka. I'm sure there are other examples out there.
Concerning AGI and AC, I know for a fact that AGI increasing items have at
least a one for one effect on AC. When I equip an AGI item, my AC goes up
the same amount as the item value. Same for AGI buffs like Feet like Cat.
Galtin of E'ci
> >
> > Has there been anything difinative(said by the bard programmer) about a
> > bards agility stat being used to check if the bard has succesfully used
> his
> > dodge skill?
> >
> > In other words is it worth while for bards to raise their agility so
> they
> > dodge more often?
> >
>
> No there hasn't. However, other people I know have checked this and they
> feel (without rigorous testing it's only a feeling) that dex is actually
> used as the check for whether the dodge skill goes off, just like parry
> and riposte. What agi is supposed to affect, and there is quite a bit of
> debate on the usefullness, is the number of times the mob will outright
> miss you. A friend of mine experimented a bit with this and he felt
> there was not a huge difference between the number of times he was
> missed in fights with an agility boosted up close to 200 with items and
> buffs, and an agility of slightly over 100. At least in his case, he
> felt you were not better off trading off ac for agi once your agi is
> over 100.
>
> High agility is definately not reflected in higher ac. And ac determines
> how much damage you take when the mob lands a hit.
>
>
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