by ublug Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:10 pm
I once had a theory that the ring of steel protection acted more like physical resistance rather than armor resistance, and thus would defend more against critical attacks (since it was assumed that those attacks ignored armor). My theory started while I was messing around in new londo with cursed weapons, and found that ghosts will completely ignore armor resistance and poise while you are uncursed, but the ring of steel protection will still protect you against their attacks.
So I compared the ring against a combination of armor that gave me exactly 50 phys resistance. I only did some pve tests (against hollows and rapier balder knights), but from the tests I learned that the ring blocked exactly the same amount of damage as the armor.