08-27-2004, 09:13 AM
You are right. I have two faults to confess to: (1) I cut corners by taking the average value of Sacred Armor and (2) I forgot to add the base armor class to the "% enhanced Defense" armors. That's why the Enigma is "close enough;" it has + to defense not a % enhancement. *sigh* I screwed up, you are right. I apologize to anybody who's read this thread. Again, my bad.
For completeness' sake, this is how I got my numbers. First, I took the average AC for Sacred Armor. From the Arreat Summit, Sacred Armor has a AC of 487-600. Assuming sacred armors are generated on a normal distribution, the average AC will be 543.5 (and I rounded down to 543, I believe).
I then used this value and enhanced it with the highest-end defense modifiers. (So much for my consistency :() In Enigma this gets (543+775=1318). This number should be a good enough ballpark as you pointed out; the reason being it is not a % enhanced defense modifier, so I didn't screw it up so much as I just approzimated the Sacred Armor AC.
The others are way off. Take, for example, Gloom. My math for Gloom was to take the base AC (543) and multiply it by the modifier (2.6) which gives the enhancement alone, not the whole AC for the item! :-( (543*2.6=1411.8 or 1142). This should be added to the base AC to get the ballparked figure (here, 1142+543=1955)
That's both me cutting corners as well as simply not thinking at 0300 when I was posting! Thanks for the correction!
And as to Prudence, here I also missed that one. (I just scrolled through the runewords and looked at the defense enhancements; I forgot about doing ethereal armor with the self-repair). Trusting your numbers (better yours that mine!!!) that would put it in competition with the highest-defense armors in the game. Good Eye!
For completeness' sake, this is how I got my numbers. First, I took the average AC for Sacred Armor. From the Arreat Summit, Sacred Armor has a AC of 487-600. Assuming sacred armors are generated on a normal distribution, the average AC will be 543.5 (and I rounded down to 543, I believe).
I then used this value and enhanced it with the highest-end defense modifiers. (So much for my consistency :() In Enigma this gets (543+775=1318). This number should be a good enough ballpark as you pointed out; the reason being it is not a % enhanced defense modifier, so I didn't screw it up so much as I just approzimated the Sacred Armor AC.
The others are way off. Take, for example, Gloom. My math for Gloom was to take the base AC (543) and multiply it by the modifier (2.6) which gives the enhancement alone, not the whole AC for the item! :-( (543*2.6=1411.8 or 1142). This should be added to the base AC to get the ballparked figure (here, 1142+543=1955)
That's both me cutting corners as well as simply not thinking at 0300 when I was posting! Thanks for the correction!
And as to Prudence, here I also missed that one. (I just scrolled through the runewords and looked at the defense enhancements; I forgot about doing ethereal armor with the self-repair). Trusting your numbers (better yours that mine!!!) that would put it in competition with the highest-defense armors in the game. Good Eye!
Out here,
--Ajax
--Ajax