by Darvin on Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:55 pm
For a level 10, sure, but the break-even drops precipitously at lower levels.
Try level 8, for instance:
40 * (1.3 + 0.6 - 0.35) = 62
33 * (1.3 + 0.6) = 62
A human can break-even here with a mere 600 conversion points (fewer if he chooses preps to mitigate the effect of the mage plate), and even non-humans can almost overcome that break-even with HP->Attack, the blacksmith 10% attack prep, and dwarven gauntlets. Below this point your mage plate falls behind drastically; at level 5 a non-human guard breaks even without any boost to attack bonus. If we had more ways to boost base attack I could see where you're coming from, but right now the combos are vastly slanted towards attack bonus, so it's much easier to mitigate that penalty.