Dindauer i did try soltaires mission 3 once (when i had 2800 ac) it took us 4 hours to get to the temple and cleric had to spam me with fast heals to keep me up, when he tried to use CH he usually had to interupt it to spam me or i would die.
I have no doubt i could tank it now 300 ac makes quite a diffrence but i also know that soltaires 4 (from exerience) and soltaires 5 and 8 (from reading) is alot harder.
Kianor i would hardly call anguish (6 expansions and 3 years) and tacvi (7 expansions and 3.5 years) for a few expansions old but here is the links you are asking for.
I would say zhisza gear is roughly equal to tacvi and silyssar gear roughly equal to low anguish (4 first encounters) and will use same comparison.
Shoulders
Silyssar
CoA
Diffrence 19 ac
Face
Sillysar
CoA
Diffrence 29 ac
Waist
Silyssar
CoA
Diffrence 18 AC
Range
Zhisza
Tacvi
Diffrence 11 ac
(a more apropirate comparison would be a range out of silyssar who would likely have 25 ac and totem of the chimera from coa with 52 ac, diffrence 27 ac).
Ring
Zhisza
Tacvi
Diffrence 13 ac
Neck
Zhisza
Tacvi
Diffrence
diffrence 14 ac
This should be examples enough.
Ughbash the way i am reading you, then you are taking 1 aug and say see raiders cant use this !
In essence you can fill out all your aug slots with augs who is as good or better as this one.
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And zsazsa what you say is partly true but also many of the links from raid gear is useable by all hybrids / melee to and still have way higher ac.
Now we have around 19 slots for gear ?
If we in 11 of them (the non visible) lose an awerage of 15-20 ac then its 15*11 = 165 gear ac wich translate to around 165*1.5 = 250 ac (247.5 if you are a nit pick) (if you say 20 instead you get 330 ac).
I think 250-330 ac is quite a bit.
The problem is its all over and all expansions, Tss, por, DoD you name it
Just take the ring dindauer mentioned 12 ac ? ring from AoW in velius had 30 ac (or 35 not sure).