Extra Armor Rank

[Prinny]

Where is the betting pool on if arrrrrgh will have it before christmas?

What are we betting on?
You do realise that Amon Djinn won 3 outof 4-5 (not sure) matches he's had against Arrrrgh?
Besides there's the balancing pass, who knows...maybe those gladius won't be as effective anymore

[Prinny]

Just noticed but Belca has 97 armour rank and his orange heavy armour sits at 196 armour rating, Asatsuo with 0 armour rank has the same armour rating.

[Adoede]

Thanks Prinny. I did notice that too - that extra armor rank bonuses don't show up anywhere visibly. I just assumed that since each rank has a max of 1000, it represented a percentage. So a 97 rank would be a 9.7% boost in your armor effectiveness. At least that's how block rank seems to work - a 300 block rank seems to result in about 30% block rate. So I figured the others were also by percentage too.

Anybody have any empirical evidence to back that up or discredit it?

[Kreegan]

Given that the "rank" bonuses are expensive, I seriously doubt that 1000 extra armour rank gives just +1/3 armour. Judging from the general performance of the other "extra ranks", 1000/1000 indeed seems to be 100%. Of course, there might be a more complex formula behind these values.

[Pit Lord]

Before the actual armor you have on your items was visible.
I saw it on someone gladiator who had extra armor.
The increase was definitely under 20%.
Rewriting my last post .....

[Adoede]

Was that because their extra armor rank was ~200? That would make sense. If their extra armor rank was 1000 and they only got less than a 20% bump, that would suck.

SOTC, any news about how 500 extra armor rank effected the amount of damage Arrrrrghpirate took in fights? Was it reduced by half? More? Less?

[Adoede]

I just got a new handaxe with extra damage bonus on it. It actually changes the damage values for my axe when I equip and when I un-equip.

Un-equipped:
207-335 Damage
474.2 per round

Equipped:
213-344 Damage
486.7 per round

My extra damage rank is 88.
If you take the difference of the damage per round (12.5) and divide it by 474.2 (the original damage number) you get 2.64% increase in damage. That is 30% of 8.8.

In other words, a 1000 rank in extra damage seems to increase your damage by 30%...as Pit Lord has been trying to tell us.

Gotta say, I'm surprised by that. The effect in battle of ranks seems waaay bigger than that. But can't argue with the facts...