Who is best of plate or chain? What do people prefer?
If we talking about ee armors. Just bought a lvl 40 plate and was sure i had lvl 35 and 45 but my armors was chain and lvl 30 and 40 so now i guess i need to sell one of them. Who would you keep? My other ee armors are all chain.


Rare diamond chain mail
Level Req: 40
Physical Defense: 104 to 261
Magical Defense: 0 to 63
+173% Enhanced Effect
+4 Mana Regen

Rare diamond plate mail
Level Req: 40
Physical Defense: 104 to 314
Magical Defense: 0 to 31
+174% Enhanced Effect
+1 Vitality

Plates are more reliable, there's more phys than casting monsters

I do like chains more tho because i think they look alot cooler
But plates are better

I would say plates are better in general too… however, if you have high int, you get double the benefit with chain from that int in terms of magical defense. Also, the disparity between the two decreases with increasing ee and lower mob strength and increases with decreasing ee and higher mob strength.

In general i suggest the plate, generally on any class you use a heavy armor, you 'll have a maximum of 20 intel. so the extra magic defense from the chain has a very poor multiplier. Whilst often you'll have between 70-120 vitality which is a huge multiplier for physical defense

Also when using a plate you can also optimise which mobs you kill.
If you can kill all the caster mobs then generally you'll take very little damage.
if you see a mob heal, ignore it seeing it only does physical damage
if you see a mob cast, kill it first seeing it "can" do magical damage.

Some mobs can only heal and some are only casters. knowing which is which can optimise this further.
It also helps keep the climb interesting rather than randomly selecting mobs at random

Ty for answears. Using always 110 vita so i Guess i keep the plate then 👍

Like Bwconformity said. If you have decent intelligence chain could possibly be better or at least more interesting to look at like Nr1 said. I'm not sure about the math behind it all but we assume all monsters can do physical damage but not all monsters cast so you'd assume the more physical defense the better period.

Plates look like tin cans and chains look like wool sweaters. Maybe just maybe if you have high intelligence also (like with guardian) It will decrease the amount of damage you take from casting damage crits so you don't get sniped suddenly.

Besides aesthetics, preference and math there are other factors like affordability, side mods etc. Yours are so close it really doesn't matter. If you have lots plates already keep the plate. If you have chains keep the chain. Do your thang gurl.

Out of these two, is is simple enough... the Plate with +1 Vitality = may add more physical defense based on your base vitality, and you are not casting, so the mana regen is null and void.