Does defense matter?
It depends on the type of defence. For one thing, defence as in resists definitely helps. But defence as in Defence Rating, well not as one might initially think. See, the difference between 1000 and 2000 defense rating is almost nothing. Roughly 1/3 of the monsters in the game don’t take your defence into account. However, defence is far from useless. The key is specialising in it. It’s no use to say “throw a few points in Shout” as that will be a barely noticeable difference. However, lets say max Shout, well, you could end up with much higher defence rating, which will make a large difference in the PvM (and sometimes PvP scene). With an Ironbarb, who is defence orientated, focusing not only on defence rating, but also other factors such as resists, block, and getting equipment to add to these will vastly increase his effectiveness as a Tank/Brick character, able to defend against all that is thrown at him. Last thing is it is semi-useful in PvP, but it’s sad to see it negated by on
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