I hate to get sucked in, but please Ace, read your own quote here,
Quote Originally Posted by Aceofspades View Post
with this build I can, and have taken 3, 100-tonz in a row, SS combined with devine veild took all but 300 some hp off the first swing, ageious boon completly healed and negated the second swing, this gave me enough time to cast stone skin once more and throw up sentinal, combined I took 0 damage
Sure the Defense and Vit numbers look pretty, but you realize for all those stats you're still using cooldowns given to the average Joe Pld? The massive hp that some use (myself included) is to keep from getting 1shot by just about anything in game. It also increases enmity through Spirit's Within, and is just more useful all around for a pld tank, be it a turtle tank or not. I have nearly the same mitigation as you just suggested in your post, and yet I have roughly 70 less defense and 30 less vit. In the grand scheme of things, for all the melds and stat stacking you do, you don't have very much more than I, however I have 1500 hp more. This huge hp allows 1 to be lazy, for I can "super" tank anything in game.