Quote Originally Posted by Raldo View Post
As shown in the research by Kaeko and co., due to the inflated level of bosses and the large effect that the difference in level has (dLvl), defense on bosses isn't terribly useful.

Your +61 defense will help a fair amount on everything else, however.
It's actually due to the inflated Attack stat, not the high dLevel, that does this for Defense. dLvl does heavily neuter a bunch of other stats, though.