03-22-2004, 12:30 AM
Quote:The armor has a defense of 816. A Kraken shell has a defense range from 417-523, so I used the average of 470. Upgraded, the defense would be 470 + 198% +45 = 1915.
Check your math.
470 + 198% + 45 = 1445.
Also, it seems that you're assuming you won't have any defense other than your body armour. You are (or would be, if you calculated the defense right) just comparing 816 to 1,445 (an increase of 77%). Now, I don't know what gloves, belt, boots or helm you're wearing or exactly how much defense is on your shield, but even if those other pieces of armour just added up to 300 or so, you'd have to compare 1,116 to 1745 (an increase of 56%). The higher the defense on your other armour is, the less significant the upgrade becomes.
Finally, the stats for monsters on the AS are potentially all wrong, since they don't account for the mlvl scaling. I'm not sure exactly how much AR they'd actually have at mlvl 85, though (6134?).
Also, a difference between 62.8% and 41.8% really means being hit 33% less, not 20% less.
If you really could get hit that much less at the cost of just 117 life, I think it'd be worth it. However, I don't see that this is actually the case.