Mit to avoidance ratio

[Lando4]

<DIV> <P><SPAN><FONT color=#ffff00>Ok so I know shields don’t have mit on them, that they up your avoidance, but is there a way to calculate how much avoidance is equal to X amount of mit?</FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN><FONT color=#ffff00>I am going up the int line and I do a lot of off tanking so I am not sure it worth dropping the shield for a symbol to get an extra attack.</FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN><FONT color=#ffff00>I would think here is a way to relate the two stats something like:</FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN><FONT color=#ffff00>If a shield gives you 20% avoidance, a mobs damage of 1k would be 800 (in the long run)</FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color=#ffff00>200 damage saved</FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN><FONT color=#ffff00>So then however much mit it takes to give you 20% absorption would be the equivalent.</FONT><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>

[Xanoth]

problem is with avoidance is that its unreliable compared with mitigation.obviously if you drop your avoidance from 50% to 25% your probably going to have to depend on your mit twice as often.so while you should always choose a mit increase over an avoidance increase, i would try tanking epics withou a shield <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />if you want to use a symbol hot bar the item next to your smite attak, and clik if first, then switch back to your shield (hotbar that too somewhere handy).as for pure numbers, i dont think any really exist because avoidance isn't that reliable.www.eq2i.com has a decent write up on how things are calculated, it might help, not sure.

[Wabit]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Lando420 wrote:<BR> <DIV> <P><SPAN><FONT color=#ffff00>Ok so I know shields don’t have mit on them, that they up your avoidance, but is there a way to calculate how much avoidance is equal to X amount of mit?</FONT></SPAN></P></DIV> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>in t7 that statement is really false...  draconic deflector, vilucidae's ethereal guard, prizzy3 shield all have ~140 mit on them, grizzfazzles and shield of the four winds have ~65mita on them...</P> <P><BR>just going from a merged parse of labs inc autoattack....  slash h:178 s:362    cruch h:140 s:349   pierce h:11 s:66 for a total of 329 hits from 777 hits...  add 396 to each of those for the nuber of warded hits...  725 of 1173 melee autoattack hit me...  thats 448 that i avoided in some way (block, parry, ripost, or miss)...  i'd say i block about 1/4 of my misses on average (buckler speced guard so its lower than useing a towershield)...</P> <P>it depends what you're tanking really...  if its for raids and you do alot of tanking then shield is the way to go...  if its for exping or random instance groups (not nazari) then it really doesn't matter what you tank with...</P> <P>and since you're a plate class mita > HP > avoidance...  you want to go with the constants, avoidance is not a constant...  </P>