Stats

[Brista]

Okay, I updated the VIT formula and updated my example to be more usable for an inferno example with larger hits and larger health pools, VIT scaled down in importance and DEX scaled up to the point that Armor, resist and DEX are actually reasonably close to each other unless you have a significant deficiency in one or the other.

VIT is still best unless, as others mentioned, you have a significant source of healing.

Not just a significant source of healing but enough healing to make a difference in the time frame it takes to kill you. I don't get one-shot in A1 Inferno but I do get killed sometimes in 2-4 hits in short succession. As I'm reasonably alert and good at not getting myself trapped (and have Spirit Walk if I do), I'm unlikely to die from a sequence of hits over more than about 0.5 - 0.75 second. So in order for healing to be more useful to me than raw soak it would have to heal the difference during a very short time frame. (Eg I'd need about 3000 health per second to make it worth giving up 2k life).

In other builds, especially without a smokescreen/spirit walk/serenity mechanic, health per second might be worth more relative to vitality.