Why is everyone choosing Health over Armor?

[Ace Bear]

How? You hit 10-15 extra damage at most every 4 seconds while you are always without the 35 health. That isn't a good trade-off.

I wouldn't run superiors or majors unless it was a spike build and I just had to have that 16 in my weapon.

[B Ephekt]

It's good for hitting breakpoints on attributes that have them, i.e. Critical Strikes and Expertise. I usually run Major Critical Strikes with headpiece so I can hit the 13-att breakpoint and still have points to put in other attributes.

I also find it helps with certain attributes like Dagger Mastery or Scythe Mastery as those tend to have rather significant boosts between levels. For example, one point in DM adds about 10-15 damage on a spammable combo, which means the damage gained is typically more than the health lost.

That 10-15 extra damage won't mean much once you get DP. And you can forget winning a VoD match with a sin @ -30%+.

Also, Scythe Mastery does not benefit significantly from 14..15..16, I can hit expertise breakpoints with all minors and I don't recall sins needing enough attributes that they would need majors or supers. Just imo though.

[woot im a warrior]

In a GvG there is only 1 character I would even consider running a major on, and that is a BA ranger, just because they have great survivability, and are most likely not going to die.

[B Ephekt]

I used superiors on paras in a Def Anthem/Soldier's D/hex build and it worked pretty well. Of course that build is ridiculously defensive, and paras pretty much never die anyway, but meh.

I wouldn't use anything but minors on anything else, unless it was a full caster spike. That's just me though...

[ekiru]

How? You hit 10-15 extra damage at most every 4 seconds while you are always without the 35 health. That isn't a good trade-off.

I wouldn't run superiors or majors unless it was a spike build and I just had to have that 16 in my weapon.

Majors are fairly common on rangers, particularly those running 15e elites(pre-re-buffed cripshot, BHA, etc.). I think paragons sometimes run majors, too.

[liamSlayer]

I only ever run minors, health is far to precious to me. On my warrior i sometimes have a sup axe or sword if i need the extra damage

on my derv i have

Hood - Sup Vigor
Chest - Radient
Legs- Radient
Hands and feet - Sup achuniment or vitie

Ornate Scythe

7-41
Double pen 20%
+30 Hp
15^50

I like that scythe, but i need to get rid of the double pen mod, there useless, i need a vamp or zeleous one

My dervish including skills can get at least

680 HP (AT LEAST)

id rather have HP, but suvivor insignia arnt worth it, need energy for dervish skills.

[ekiru]

I like that scythe, but i need to get rid of the double pen mod, there useless, i need a vamp or zeleous one

Sundering is great.
Vampiric is great.
Zealous is great.
Ebon is great.
Furious is great but not for scythes.

[SurviverX]

Does this means we can use Shadowy Burden/Shattering Assault assassins for frontline?

Nice...100 dps...with enchant remove.

[Some Dude]

That actually sounds kind of leet.

But no.

[SurviverX]

That actually sounds kind of leet.

But no.

If armor is so unimportant, why don't we all just run IW and slash through our enemies?

IW ignores armour. It's one of just two things it has going for it, the other being it ignores block/miss. However if IW was 80-90 dps rather than about 30 it may actually see play. Seriously, 20 lower base AL than a warrior is the very last of IW's problems.

So, why not?