Faux is one of the 3 forums where high defence makes a huge difference. My emo ran Faux and used 350+ smileprin with a defence of 9, my troll uses ~50 per run with a defence of 48 and attack of 27. I’m guessing around the 50 defence point there’s going to be diminishing returns though for higher levels, and of course with a higher attack, your defence has to kick in less often, so it’s still a tradeoff (and the best combination of the two will be different for different forums)

I’m considering respeccing for as high attack as possible, at the expense of luck and frugality, but it’s going to be an expensive operation as my current cost at Haxlrose is 50k .