Originally Posted by
Meiffert
Armor has some dr%, true. But at 50 % "base" armor, it is still by far the strongest defensive stat.
2k armor (average of DMD) on top of 50 % will bring you up to around 56 %. That means 12 % reduction of physical damage.
To get 12 % reduction from vers, you would need 10.8k. Stat sticks at 900 item-level have barely over 1k.
12 % reduction is the equivalent of EHP increase of 13.6 %.
For a stamina trinket to have the same effect, it would need to give about 1m hp. And you would still have the disadvantage of requiring more healing.
Don't get me wrong. Stamina trinkets are still very strong defensively, but DMD is on another level.
Stat sticks (including Arcanocrystal) are very overrated by many people. They are strong general purpose trinkets, but they are not defensive trinkets, they are hybrid trinkets - secondary stats improve both your dps and survival, so it's only logical that they will not be as strong defensively as pure survival trinkets like stamina or armor trinkets.