Paladins are tanky because of huge block and fbr. But the difference between 75-95 all res do wonders on most situations when the elemental damage are the danger. To general content often are easier to paladins get nice values. Paladin shield with spirit already gives a ton of res. Mine clear all content without BO, smite one with 1 point on vengeance and one on zeal.
He kills everything, with heavens mace with 2-3 eths on it for ar based foes.
He can mob entire maps around him and is really hard for him to die. With about 1.1k hp
Nice block, some rd, nice lifesteal and all res 95. Also because of high res to cold I can go around even without “cannot be frozen” stat because cold effect vanish really fast.
The only way he could die are against mana burners and lilith paired with succubus.
I have one bowzon with between 400-800hp depending on the gear and the content.
Hp gives some sensation of security but most damaging hits wouldn’t take more than 1800hp if you had -100 on that res. That’s how low the damage often are if you reach certain thresholds on most content with a few exceptions.
1-2k hp with nice res often are enough for most content.
Unless you’re really careless or your build doesn’t have ways to increase max res, res, mf or damage you should focus on hp.
Sorc by example often go cold because of the mastery, which pierces res from targets(not immunes). That’s how effective res can be.
100 cold damage against 95% are 5 dmg. Against 75% would be 25.
3 times more damage. In a small scale.
Pick numbers like 1k dmg and you see more impact. Like 250 vs 50.
200hp vs 20% resist, get 200hp from vit isn’t exactly “easy” while about 1-2 pieces of gear should be enough to give you that. While some classes would need about 100 vit for it.
Vit are great if you have enough damage mitigation measures in place. Otherwise often are overrated, unless you’re playing hardcore which often wouldn’t go for more glass cannon builds. Which on hardcore survivability are more important than huge amounts of damage, that would invest on hp and res.