Travalgar Posted:

At first, I’m aiming for an offensive Troll with little use of medicines (thus come the need for defense — an alternate version from the Speed build, switching the Ego with Defense).

Doesn’t work—Defense doesn’t scale nearly as well as Offense does. My DML gives me 46 Defense and from what I remember, I still got hit about a third of the time for around 50-60 damage each on the two megaforums. And on the weaker high-level forums I get hit at about the same rate as with the Sealskin with only a few points less damage. A couple extra points of Defense isn’t really going to help, especially if you have to trade off Offense or Ego for it.