Vestibule Violator
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Joined: Sunday, 14th July 2013, 16:36
Make GDR depend on AC, not body armor
Rationale has been given in the past for not displaying this value, not disclosing its existence in game, and not informing players of it in the forums: that sources of GDR tend to also be sources of a lot of AC, so that the two figures are somewhat correlated, and that the devs intend that players should intuit the combined effect of AC+GDR as a function of the displayed AC.
(along with the implied acceptance that it's fine to thoroughly mislead people about the situations when they aren't well-correlated, such as octopodes getting their AC from rings)
I propose making GDR purely a function of AC, rather than being derived from your choice of body armor, so that the reality truly is that damage reduction is a function of AC.