Mit vs. Avoid for T3/T4?

[tooralo]

Does anyone have any input on LA vs. VLA for monks?  I'm curious what the trade off is.  My gut instinct is to wear leather for the mitigation, but I understand it trades off with avoidance (which I would rather have).  Both have nice stats.  Anyone have some input into this? <div></div>

[Dfoley3]

The more avoidance you get the more mitigation youll lose.  At a lower teir you might survive with wearing full VLA, but i wouldnt expect to tank to often.   The thing is, mitigation is still the be all, end all determining factor for how well youll tank, because no matter what avoidance will always be streaky and will required 1, 2, 10, 100 fights for the randomness of it to play out. Think of it like the lotto button.  How often have you been like "man this person wins it all".  Well, hes just geting a bunch of lucky randoms in a row.  So if you compare yourself to him, your both in the same group, you both have the same 1/6 odds, but he just keeps coming up ahead.   Avoidance is the same way, you could have the same avoidance for 3 weeks, fighting the same mobs, and some day the random number generator will be uber nice, and other days youre gonna find out what having no mittigation means when you get hit 5 times in a row for full dmg.  Imho, the ideal set up would be HIGH mitigation, with MODERATE avoidance.  IE in raids im about 3- 3.3k mitgation, with 70% avoidance.   I could easily get to 80% avoidance using VLA, but then 1 bad roll and im getting for for 10k dmg instead of 5-6k.  <div></div>

[Mattim]

<blockquote><hr>tooraloom wrote:Does anyone have any input on LA vs. VLA for monks?  I'm curious what the trade off is.  My gut instinct is to wear leather for the mitigation, but I understand it trades off with avoidance (which I would rather have).  Both have nice stats.  Anyone have some input into this? <div></div><hr></blockquote>Having just gone through 30 and making 42 on my monk.. I'll always make a recomendation for the leather armor. Then again throughout both tiers I've had full legendary, but it's worth the investment. With moderate gear otherwise I can still hit 70% avoidance in most parties with pretty high mitigation. I don't group if I'm not the tank and everyone has very happy with how well I do, so mitigation seems to be choice 1.The other day I inspected a monk with a full set of some very nice VLA, I forget what he was wearing but it looked nice and had some nice stats. His avoidance was only a few points higher than mine but his mitigation was 350~ lower at the same level in the same stance and buffs. I'll take the 300+ mitigation myself <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />As the previous poster said the only thing you can actually count on is getting hit.

[tooralo]

Sounds like sound advice.  I didnt' know what the difference turned out to be numerically.  I'm aware of the streaky nature of avoidance (I've been dissing avoid/mit debates over that issue since CP), and I prefer mitigation in general on an intuitive level.  Sounds like that's others' conclusion from experience. I appreciate the input! Cheers, Tooraloom <div></div>