+ Def Stones or Vit/HP?

VIT stones all the way.

Well don't know if you thought of this or not but what about your main AoE skill Armageddon? pretty sure you're gonna want vit stones for that reason alone, def stones ain't gonna help Arma at all.

I choose vit stones.

Baalbak - Dreamweaver wrote: »

idk about you, but for instance when I tank most world bosses they hit me for around 4400 (fully buffed, no defense blessing), and ~2200 with the 50% damage reduction of BB. Or at least they did just a few levels ago. Any rate.. Take the very real (albeit expensive) possibility of attaining 48 defense levels from shards alone (jade of steady defense). add in some select ornaments, and your defense level can surpass 50 without having any blessing on. School Teacher Blessing tossed in on top of that and you can achieve def level 60+.

Therefore, theoretically speaking if defense level behaves the way people claim it does, whereas each defense level you have = 1% less damage taken, 4400 * .4 = 1760, which is single cleric heal-able. Sure a world boss can be done with just one cleric and lots of HP, but at the cost of charm ticks b:surrender.

food for thought.

Actually, going by http://pwi-wiki.perfectworld.com/index.php/Damage one defense level does not = -1% damage.

Damage taken= 4400/(1+[1.2*{60-1(?)}]/100)
Damage taken=4400/1.708
Damage taken=2576

But then, thats assuming the boss only has an attack level of 1.

Also, there are some formulas at the bottom of the page which might be helpful.

Edit: Also, you won't be able to equip JoD's in TT99 armor. Best you will be able to do is DoD, which means only +1 defense level per stone, so you can drop the defense level by about 24.

If you like your Gear sharded with Def+2 stones you need at least Lunar armors (lvl13) and these hard to farm and very expensive (gold mats).
The def+1 stones arent worth it. Even perfect citrines are better.

With low refines, vit stones might be better but then again nobody who is refining with vit stones got low refines on their gear, at least shouldn`t(Unless waiting for orb sale). When refines get the fat barb into 20k+ hp fully buffed, I`d say w/o any maths that def stones are better, as long as we`re talking `bout the 2 def lvls ones.

The barbs who should be even really considering these options are high ones, kinda rich, with base gear of nirvana/R9. That gear refined to +10, would give pretty much give any kitty ~30k hp. Now would vit stones turn that to 40k(gives less), I`d still take the def lvls. The difference PvP wise turns tables towards def stones even more as def lvls cant be purged, their flat, wont go anywhere like hp. Real nukes got attack lvls so I`d use an estimation of taking one third less damage than with vit stones. So as long as vit stones wont add over one third more hp, go with def lvls.

So what about arma? When you got 25k hp humanoid, ToP, not too many things be alive when you check the scene for survivors. It`s kinda irrelevant if you hit robes for 20k or 25k, non crit. You`ll be dropping most HA with def lvl build if you happen to crit or zerk.

Ps. I may have some flaw on my logic, vit stones turnout doesnt seem as bad as I thought.

Pps. Numbers are estimates, shouldn`t be too far from the truth though. I was actually doing math behind which is better not long ago, exact numbers I have sadly forgotten.

well thinks of it this way your a barb you lack magic deff. unless you have a cube belt and warsong necklace and coa rings all =12 -_-

if you not pure pure pure vit its nothing for a mage to one shot you so there for vit stones that alone will help your pdeff.