Is it wrong to run Castrum Abania as a tank at ilvl 272

[Liam_Harper]

Just for reference: The Defense gain from 310 to 380 is LESS than the defense gain from 270-285. It's an 18% jump in defense from 310 to 380.

Interesting game design. It sounds like a noob-trap tbh. Most players would be expecting fairly consistent stat increases with ilv and would see the difference between 270 and 280 as fairly minor. I admit I never knew about this.

Since this is the case, I fully agree that 272 is way undergeared. You just can't turn down that sort of defense as a tank.

However, I think it's poor design and players need to be made more aware of it. This is why we need ilv requirements on dungeons, so the game basically tells you "you aren't geared for this, go gear up". The quests give you the gear, so new players aren't affected. We already have HoH as no-requirement 61-70 leveling for alts anyway. Currently I imagine most players making the lv60-70 climb on alt classes will slap on Shire gear expecting maybe a 5% difference in stats that they could make up by playing reasonably well.