by siludorf » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:37 pm
From my understanding,.. AC is actually a combination of 2 numbers, one is avoidance and the other is how much damage you take.
What defensive AA do is raise the caps for those 2 AC.
For example, if your displayed AC is 800, you tank just as good as another shaman with 800AC and Lightning Reflex Mastery 5.
The defensive AA's ONLY raise the caps from my understanding, there may be some additional +avoidace or +shielding they add, but I have never heard of that.
I would still prioritize hp/focus unless you have really low AC. I would also put an AC aug in the shield no matter what. In the end, it may not look good for your magelo but it'll be good in real use =b
A high end Cleric or Druid won't get 1 rounded by a 10k damage, one day shaman can say the same =/