Actually, I did play in the beginning, when the gossamer robe cost over a
hundred, if you found someone selling it, people dreamed about when they
would one day have a FBR, and people wondered what that guy in the OOT was
for, he was wearing a funny robe. No one had heard of the SMR yet.
Now lets talk the merits of the Tham robe...
Your senior robe is AC6... ( +2 mana, that's useful )
the Tham robe is AC5 +3 agility
Now unless you still live in some dream world thinking that Agility has
some mystical function in the game; even when everyone, including Brad
McQuiad, the producer of the game says it does not; you must know that
agility really only affects your AC. For Erudites, Humans, and other lower
agility races, at the levels that you would wear the tham robe, it takes 4
agility to raise your ac ONE point. 3 agility does not raise it one whit.
If you are Dark elf or other higher agility race ( i.e. more than 75 ) it
take 6 or 7 points of Agility to raise your AC ONE point.
Now keep in mind, agility affects your total AC, not the AC on the item, and
that agility HAS NO OTHER FUNCTION IN EQ OTHER THAN RAISING YOUR AC. (( For
anyone piping up that Agility affects your channeling, get a gun and shoot
yourself, you are hopeless ))
Now, here is the real kicker... based on your LEVEL ( nope, still not your
agility, but keep that dream alive ), items add more AC than they list in
their description. An ac 6 item adds 8-9 to your real AC number.... a AC5
item adds like 6-7. ( I do not care what real number it really is, like I
said, it is level based, not a linear formula, and all results will vary
anyway) To add to your misery, just like the Agility calc, it throws away
fractions, so 8.999 is 8 and 9.001 is 9.
Now for the most important reason to NOT wear the tham robe... IT IS CRUD
BROWN.
If you cannot get a pure white Gossamer robe, the pinnacle of fashion, get a
green senior, red senior, Blue senior, or even a Purple Senior from the
necros in FP. Just do not wear those gay ass yellow or violet senior robe.
Now if you want to continue this conversation, please direct it to
moghedan@..., and not this list. I will be happy to tell you all
the ways you are wrong in private.
Moghedan Carns
Enchanter Adept of Freeport
Brell Server