which armors are better for tanking.. scales or chains? ty

This post was edited by Talaat on Dec 9 2011 02:55am

i like leathers because you get both magical and psysical defense.

but aren't there more physical mobs than magical? i've been using scales but i'm getting a feeling that chains are better?
iso other opinions please

#1 leathers and scales
#2 plates and chains
#3 padded robes
#4 robes

someone did the comparison in a nice chart before. i remeber just recently looking at it.
Scales with high EE are the best

ok if someone else can share their opinino would be great

It was kaspir. High EE scales > Leathers > chain > Plate> Probe > Robes

Here is the post. Its somewhat old and might be outdated (Arena Data and Old cata data)
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=39762184&f=272&o=0
But the data seems to be the same Scales > Leather > Chain > Plate (doesn't have leather but I would imagine this is where it goes)

Hope that helps

Edit: Sorry about the necro. I didn't realize this was 6 days old...

This post was edited by Neffrey on Dec 16 2011 01:42am

thats the post thanks


definitely not kaspir

Vouch. Scales with high EE trump the rest, Leather is a close 2nd. Chain/Padded Robe are trailing in 3rd with Plate/Robe in last place as far as best defense is concerned. Of course, it is situational, if you are trying to complete Mirror Maze and fighting the objective at the end, you may want a beefy Plate instead, similar to how Robes are nice for tanking caster mobs.






The chart was made before Kaspir was really around, he may have "borrowed" it and called it his own though. Pretty sure A_U_T_I_S_M first did the tests but his info changed after the update to magical defense on armor which was a while back.