Armor Penalty reduction testing

[holocene]

Bought myself a fixskills potion because I'm looking for some changes / improvements in my combat abilities. I'm a capped warrior wearing plate.

Here's what I did:

I brought my 3x dodging down to 2x to free up a lot of TP's (something like 4000MTP or more than 3 million on post-cap experience).

For the record, my DS decreased 63 / 84 (Off/Def Stances) when I lost 101 ranks of dodge.

Now for the fun part:
AGIDEX bonus of 61

Armor Use of 180:
Off DS +4
Def DS +5
Offensive Cman improvement +1

Armor Use 230:
Off DS +3
Def DS +4
Offensive Cman improvement +1

Armor Use 280:
Off DS +4
Def DS +5
Offensive Cman improvement +1

With Enhancives to bring my AGIDEX up to 83 (tiny tweaks).

Armor Use of 180 (-1 Armor Penalty)
Off DS +4
Def DS +5
Offensive Cman improvement +1

Armor Use from 180 to 230:
Off DS +4
Def DS +5
Offensive Cman improvement +1

Armor Use from 230 to 280:
Off DS +4
Def DS +6
Offensive Cman improvement +1

Just to make sure it was working as intended, I also tested some intermediate points (170 AU, 190 AU, 255 AU) and there are no incremental improvements in DS.

Please send me any questions or feedback, I hope I got all the important data points...not that this information wasn't available in the formulas, I wanted to see it for real. Wish we could calculate the improvements to EBP, but here's hoping that it's at least equivalent to the cumulative +12 DS improvement...

[Danical]

I, also, found +1 offensive Combat Maneuver bonus when going up to the first tier of Action Penalty reduction. However, I'm not seeing any defensive benefit, for shame! I'm in Aug Chain.

>cman feint droit
For some reason, you feel extremely lucky.
[Roll result: 182 (open d100: 87) Penalties: 0]
You feint to the left, Droit buys the ruse and twists awkwardly to block the blow that never came!
Roundtime: 3 sec.

95

[Roll result: 101 (open d100: 12)]
Droit chooses an opening, attempts to disarm you barehanded and connects!
The sonic forces of your fist-scythe cause Droit's hand to bounce right off!

89

[Roll result: 80 (open d100: 16)]
Droit chooses an opening, attempts to disarm you barehanded and connects!
The sonic forces of your fist-scythe cause Droit's hand to bounce right off!

64

For some reason, you feel extremely lucky.
[Roll result: 80 (open d100: 26)]
Droit crouches, sweeps a leg at you and connects!
Droit whacks your legs futilely! Droit stumbles back on his feet.

54

[Roll result: 75 (open d100: 46)]
Droit crouches, sweeps a leg at you and connects!
Droit whacks your legs futilely! Droit stumbles back on his feet.

29

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>stance off
You are now in an offensive stance.
>cman feint droit
[Roll result: 280 (open d100: 184) Penalties: 0]
You feint to the left, Droit buys the ruse and twists awkwardly to block the blow that never came!
Roundtime: 3 sec.

96

For some reason, you feel extremely lucky.
[Roll result: 130 (open d100: 41)]
Droit chooses an opening, attempts to disarm you barehanded and connects!
The sonic forces of your fist-scythe cause Droit's hand to bounce right off!

89

[Roll result: 76 (open d100: 12)]
Droit chooses an opening, attempts to disarm you barehanded and connects!
The sonic forces of your fist-scythe cause Droit's hand to bounce right off!

64

[Roll result: 131 (open d100: 77)]
Droit crouches, sweeps a leg at you and connects!
You fall to the ground! Droit deftly regains his footing.
Roundtime: 5 sec.

54

[Roll result: 98 (open d100: 69)]
Droit crouches, sweeps a leg at you and connects!
Droit whacks your legs futilely! Droit stumbles back on his feet.

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