I can farm either Defense or Health mods

Taken from an extensive thread on this topic, basic point is defence set bonuses are useless while flat +X defence secondary stats have minor value, a full +15% 3 set yields 3% damage reduction on 5555 the character with highest defence in game for the % to work with. A +18 defence secondary stat gives as much armor and resist (the only stats defence affects) as a full 3 set + 15%

"Durrun;571729" wrote:
Here is my own research



Ignore the hp mods up top and note no mods slotted have any flat or additional defence % value





2 def mods slotted, 2.5% increase in defence value... Not even a full 1% increase to armor

Now those 2 def mods are replaced by 2 max lvl defence mods for an additional 2.5% increase from the last set


Less than a percent armor bonus from 2.5% set bonus to 5% set bonus

Now the mod with the defence % primary stat.



Mod removed 27.8% armor

Mod stats


With secondary stats 13.5% defence added




3% armor added from that mod so we can figure that's pretty close to a full max set of defence mods item sets assuming base stats are similar since when I added the mod for defence it added 13.5 and a full mod set would add 15%

So unless I am very wrong about this on this character (5555) a full mod set would add less than 3% armor

Now here's a flat value defence mod



Mod has 18 defence on it... Let's check the armor increase



That's almost 3% which was the increase we got from a full set of defence mods

i won't try to explain the math in depth it's not my thing I'm just showing the in game examples.. If I am wrong please correct me but I think it's all sound logic... Defence dosent seem to be the way to go

As an additional fact here's the same GW battle run with 5s and RG the intent being testing defence up stat
(note RG is leader so no extra defence from 5s lead ability)



Lumi force blade no defence up, armor value is at about 31% 3000 damage

Now defence up



2500

Same lumi same 5s same attack even just with defence up and we only blocked 500 more damage

Go hp mods