Groups are requesting a certain “AR” of like 20-25 or something. What does AR mean, at first i thought Armor rating but my armor rating is 2k. Could someone enlighten me?
Indeed, as you get further in the fractals of the mist dungeon you begin to build up agony, which quickly drains your health. Ascended items (currently rings and backpacks) can be obtained or created that provide a numerical agony resistance value (one of their stats) and can be infused to provide more agony resistance (not sure if they initially come with agony resistance or not).
The agony resist you have depends on your rings. Rings dropped from the FotM Lvl 10-18 daily runs as well as purchased with pristine fractal relics have no inbuilt agony resist and one infusion slot, so their AR is capped to a maximum of +5 AR.
Lvl 20-28 rings acquired from dailies have +5 built in AR, plus an infusion slot so they are capable of +10 AR.
You can make ascended backpieces (upgraded prototype fractal capacitor, endless quiver, etc) which can have agony resists as well depending on their level of upgradedness. Backpieces are expensive resource-wise and upgrading them even more so.
The agony resist needed to survive boss attacks will increase the further you go up in scale/difficulty. Generally on FotM Lvl.20 or higher you will need more than +10 AR to survive agony attacks from bosses. Some bosses can insta-kill you with agony attacks if you do not have enough AR.
Daily runs are effectively Jade Maw encounters. On every even leveled difficulty you will encounter the Jade Maw. The first time you encounter and defeat the Jade Maw on that day you will receive an extra reward at the end. The daily reward always includes fractal relics but sometimes you will also get an ascended ring. Subsequent runs on the same day will not give you that extra ‘daily’ reward.
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