I love it when dogmatic people are wrong, I really do.
People, check your sources before listening to Jeremy Caswell.
I am going to be curt.
A. Agility does do more than raise your AC in this game. If you play a
melee class, and you get it up to 152 like my level 43 monk on TZ has it,
you will see a drastic increase in your dodging and riposte. When
pulling, i use all my AC equimpent, and when fighting I use my agility to
equipment. So to say that agility is completely useless just amplifies
ones ignorance. Now if one were to qualify...saying that for most caster
based classes, it has a relatively insignificant effect, that would be
more correct.
B. The formula calculating you AC based on your agility IS linear, and is
dependent on your level. Granted it is based on a few variables, but once
these are defined, the final AC value is static.
C. and for the supposedly most important reason not to wear the robe:
color... well there is no accounting for taste. Wear whatever color you
wish, and people, just have fun.
Good Luck all
Protemethius Paraxus (level 38 VZ)
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Jeremy Caswell wrote:
> 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
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