Shaman - Leather vs. Mail

[kandrathe]

AC means jack in the endgame for anyone besides your primary couple tanks. So does defense, really.

Mitigation won't save you when something's hitting for a couple thousand. You MUST be healed to survive any significant amount of attention from an angry monster. Thus, stats become king for everyone but the tanks as acquiring meaningful mitigation values is difficult to do without sacrificing statistics that may be necessary to perform your non-getting smacked around roles.
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I get smacked around in MC by Lava Surgers and Anhilators quite a bit. My hunter wearing mail can survive two hits now if I get an unlucky PRNG ADD roll. Having even 40% DR from armor helps, and I would rather not die everytime I'm hit.