hi..i was going to try to get Four flameshield augs 25 ac, for bp, both wrists, and greaves. then i started thinking about ac cap and don't know if it would
be a waste. Anyone know how that works for druids? or what it is?

Thanks

Soroan

This is just personal opinion.
I will ALWAYS go for HP and MANA over AC.

I'm an end game raider. The mobs I get agro from when I do are bigtime beaters. A little extra mitigation makes the difference between my being dead in 2.78 seconds vs 2.34.

I'd rather have the HP to survive AEs or the Mana to Heal.

AC augs are 100% worthless.

Unless you are of the rare breed of pulling druids, stick to mana, hp and resists.

Thanks for input...am not a pulling druid...just a reformed sk where AC/HP is king. Having hard time getting over that mindset.

Thanks,

Soroan.

the rare breed of pulling druid doesn't need AC, either... he or she needs only a healthy dose of insanity... after all, it drives everyone else nuts to know the group they just joined has a druid doing pulls and heals!

/cackle

Yeah, hp/mana will be far more valuble to you as a Druid than AC.

Unless you play a druid in WoW, then AC is pwn for teh dire bear.

I really like AC myself, and have noticed a big difference post 2000. I still use 2 AC augs and prefer them myself. It depends on what augs are available to you, i would take a 25ac aug over a 35hp aug, and do. If you strictly raid not going to see any difference, but when i solo i tank quite a bit, and the extra mitigation helps out bigtime. 200hp is not going to make a significant difference at all, but 200AC will. I generally use a formula around 1ac to 2hp or so. Would rep out a 25AC aug with a 70hp aug, but not for a 45.

Aegyen

It's a long way to 2k AC for a druid...

Fun thread... :)

I'm a big fan of AC. When I'm not raiding I sometimes go hunting things 2-box style with my enchanter. This usually involves tanking with my druid. I've noticed mobs have become significantly easier as my AC has gone up; mobs that used to be risky business are now fairly easy and only require a few heals throughout the fight.

I have 3 x 25ac augs from RSS and one 20ac aug from Yxtta. I'm finding it harder and harder to justify these as hp/mana on alternative augs go up (would be 90/90 atm), but so far I'm holding on to them. My max buffed AC atm, including tributes, is 2498.

I know a few months back I saw parsings that concluded that the AC softcap for PoV and PoW mobs was ~1350. Now, of course vs an anguish trash mob the softcap would be much higher, but its my assumption that its about 1700 - this would be hard to parse. On the other hand, things like raw hp, avoidance (cap = 100), and shielding (cap = 35%) would be more valuable tools against lowering mob's melee dps on you than AC.

But your friend is still right, for an SK / tank AC = king, i keep 8 AC augs on my warrior, but on my druid i make 0 effort to accomidate for ac.

Question for original poster - what zones / mobs are you refering to for ac benefit? it has a lot to do with the expansion / zone / mob lvl etc..