03-06-2002, 03:34 AM | #1 |
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Why is it that sometimes when i put on a piece of armour better than the current i get no ac increase? like i put some leather boots on instead of sandals.
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03-06-2002, 05:11 AM | #2 |
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Because you are looking at your 'average AC', which doesn't necessarily increase just because you put on a single new item. If you look at your AC on each individual body part, you will see that it did go up. You have to increase a single AC coverage by several points to get the average to go up. Otherwise you will need to add several new items to get the average up.
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03-06-2002, 05:16 PM | #3 |
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Also, different pieces of armor have a different influence on your armor class, e.g. putting on boots doesn't protect you as well as putting on a new body armor. Makes sense for me...
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03-06-2002, 05:39 PM | #4 |
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Another point to consider... If you change out a peice of armor with one that is heavier your encumbrance penalty may change. If it gets too high your AC will start dropping. This happened to me once when I gave my bishop a new peice of leather. His AC should have gone up, but because the weight of the armor increased my encumbrance too much, his AC value actually stayed the same.
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03-06-2002, 06:01 PM | #5 |
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Armor also helps each particular body part it covers. If someone has a high average AC, but is only wearing sandals, any attacks to the feet will have a better chance of hitting.
It's not usually known where a hit is scored in this game, but previous games (Wiz 6 BOCF and Wiz 7 CDS) each hit scored listed where on the body the person was hit.
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03-06-2002, 06:17 PM | #6 |
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quote: I believe that there is a setting under options that will supply info as to where a hit occured. I am getting info on "hit in head" etc.
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