Quote Originally Posted by LeLoric View Post
You are also right with epics. There is no benefit to being ac geared and shield toting in epic content. Even the extra hp from the future changes just means defender builds are barbs but with significantly less dps.
Without damage mitigation via AC it is pointless to tank via defenders when an DPS build can do it just fine.

Turbine's half-way there with the new stance changes, hopefully we'll see the other half.