Coming from a level 45 warrior here, I can say that the type of armor does
make a difference. No cold hard facts, but I did do some tests one night
when we were bored. Loaded up my packs with different armors and we hit
lower guk. We choose the Crusader as our guinea pig. For those that don't
know, he hits a lot for 120s. First, I loaded on the banded. 120s were
common place, and average hits were around 80 to 90 a pop. Shredded in short
order. Next loaded up a set of Bronze. Still a lot of 120s, but average hit
seemed around 60 to 70. Next I loaded up full crafted. Very few 120s,
average hits were in the 40s to 50s.
The one thing to keep in mind though is when you are loading up the heavier
armors, is that you are going to be sacraficing on some of the stat raising
equipment. When you get to the higher levels with your bard though, the
better armors with stat increases on them become available.
On my bard I have the following main pieces:
Mithral Breastplate
Silvery Legs
Skull Shaped Barbute
Black Charred Boots
Azure Sleeves
2 serp bracers
elf hide gloves
host of jewelry.
With this setup and my jewelry, I have an agi of 170, and a dex of 160.
Dunno if I really need those high of numbers, but I like high numbers =) I
am able to dodge msot attacks, and when I do resort to using weapons (I
prefer using instruments), I hit a lot and proc like a demon.
While you may not see the numbers on your ac change very much with equipping
the next level of armor available to you, the difference will be noticed in
how much damage you take. And as we all know, verants uber mobs can deal out
max damage a lot, so its always in ones best interest to keep that minimized
as much as possible.
Kragan Tundrafury
Mith Marr
>This was a topic a long time ago when we were debating if bards should wear
>plate. The theory is that stronger/thicker armor types may deflect a
>portion of the blow. For example, the random generator decides you will
>take 50 points of damage from a hit. The results would be something like
>this:
>
>Type Damage
>No armor 50
>Leather 45
>Banded 40
>Bronze 35
>Steel 30
>
>I just made these up as an example. Another theory is that the type of
>armor has no impact whatsoever. In this case, the only thing that is
>important is your AC. A higher AC would mean a less chance of getting hit.
>If you do get hit, using the previous example, you would take 50 damage
even
>if you were wearing steel plate.
>
>I have no idea what the correct answer is but since I have enough STR to
>wear full bronze, its a moot point for me. I would like to get
confirmation
>but doubt it will ever happen.
>
>Galtin of E'ci
>