Quote (breakbeatz2 @ Oct 12 2011 09:20pm)
Compared to a 4os ancient, your armor does 28 less max damage and has 163 more defense.
Compared to a 65ED/2os armor, yours does 12 more max damage/34 more life, and has 154 less defense.
Clearly 16max is better than 9defense/34life so you should think that a 4os ancient armor is better than yours.
For the situation to use this type of armor, you would be vsing a offensive zealot because of the added max and medium defense
however
I worked out that on a defiance, with 156 from goth and 80 max, it is better for dueling against a offensive zealot, even with 100 less defense.
This armor however is not actually even as good as the goth vs offensive in most cases (assuming they have their stats at max and know correct setup)
This armor is best used vs conc/defiance zeal, because of the defense being at just the right amount to block a certain % when these 2 specified characters have a certain range of ar (that they 80% of the time do)
When they try to counter that armor by adding ar, I would then go back to the gothic if they were to hit a higher % to hit that would lower my chances of winning.
What you explain above makes sense for a certain circumstance, but for dueling the best possible melee character at 18 (a defiance zeal) it is best to use this armor as of now.
This is assuming they are also using a similar setup.