Talk:Potion of Absorption/@comment-67.183.86.95-20191007061844

This isn't nearly as helpful as you might think. The AC bonus only applies to crushing attacks, and even then, doesn't seem to do much. I'd been carrying some of these around since the start of the game, waiting for a situation where protection from crushing attacs or electricity would help. The only thing that seems to do electrical damage is when I get caught by the rebound from my own Wand of Lightning, and very few things do crushing damage. Finally, late in the game, ran into some big baddies that did MASSIVE crusing damage, even against my guy with the -8 AC. So, I gave him one of these potions, which should have given him an AC of -18 vs. crushing attacks. Nope. He still got hit just as often, although there seemed to be a slight decrease in the damage done. Seems like an effective AC of -18 should make it virtually impossible to do crushing damage, but it hardly mattered at all.