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Ellestil -
even if not by much, our armor and our aggro keeping abilities is what sets us apart. That 10% minues on a 5k hitting mob means a good bit.
On top of it all, keep in mind that AC is "the 2nd to last resort" of damage absorbance. Damage from a mob goes through debuffs, than through your defensive skills - blocks parries etc, than through your racials and such, than through your armor, and only than biting off at your hp. that is how I look at it.
And as a tank, i'll do everything in my power to boost any one out of those filters that the mob's damage has to trickle through.
But I understand that you are not arguing that AC is useless, you are trying to get a sense of how useful it is in comparison to other means of mitigating damage like debuffs (proactive) and more hp/more block (reactive)
I think honestly slow type debuffs, strength type debuffs, and block/parry type buffs are the highest return mitigation fields. AC and HP are the "last resorts" of mitigation and they are exactly what sets us so far apart from clothies - they got neither of those 2 on par with the content they will be doing.
And the only reason they will be doing that content, is because they hide behind our backs. As they should, cause if that mob hits them... it will f***'em up.
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