This repeats itself later with jewelry and many other things. As nice as it is to have the heaviest armor available, you won't get priority ever on that kind of gear. The armor you wear just further diverges from tanky armor as you go up in level. You'll get to need things with more defense than a mnk gets, but neither set is going to keep a dps safe. The example that comes to mind to show how it continues is the DPS rings in coil. Both great, both useful for a Drg as they build up... Drg can only need one, Mnk can only need the other one. Beyond that they have to greed the same as everyone else.