Quote Originally Posted by Tam_Hawkins View Post
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I would argue that the opposite is more likely true. Warriors already have an astonishing HP pool due to Defiance. As a warrior your goal should be to get approximately 9k HP with defiance on, and put the rest into str. I'm not sure of the HP threshold for paladin but I'm guessing it's somewhere around 7.5k. You need enough HP to withstand the strongest hit in the game and not get OHKO after mitigation. Anything extra after that isn't really necessary and better itemized elsewhere.