Paladin BiS Accessory Reddit Discussion

[CianaIezuborn]

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Here's the issue:

You're trying to lump in chance based mitigation with static based mitigation.

They aren't the same, over a long period of time (which is what avoidance based damage reductions rely on) static based mitigation will NEVER fail you and avoidance based mitigation will ALWAYS fail you at least once.

There is no situation where you have two tanks with equal static mitigation (DEF/MDEF/Shield Oath/technically heal% buffs though that's out of scope) and the same amount of constant healing coming in but differing avoidance rates that one will always die and one will always live.

They will either both always live or they will both always have a chance to die.

Luckily healing isn't a constant thing, healers are able to throw burst healing to match with the ebb and flow of damage. At this point avoidance and additional hp are providing the same advantage in different ways, they are reducing the stress on the human factor. Avoidance helps lower the frequency of the flows, while HP increases the amount of time a healer has to react to each flow.

AHp is a metric used to figure this and is the only reasonable one that has been determined to examine the effects of avoidance in simplified terms. By checking the figures I posted above, it's easy to see that there's a vast improvement in AHp by stacking VIT over Avoidance in current gear. This isn't to say that avoidance is bad, it's that HP and Avoidance levels in current gear sets are so low currently, that VIT is severely outweighing avoidance in AHp calculations.

As VIT and Avoidance both rise, Avoidance has the possibility of creeping up on VIT in value due to the fact that linear VIT gains increase AHP linearly, while linear Avoidance gains increase AHP exponentially.

But until AHP gains more from stacking Avoidance gear over VIT gear, there's no argument. You are becoming less tanky by doing so.

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Again though, if your intention is to do more DPS/Enmity then yeah stack DPS stats.