vindicator's bracers dragonhide vs leatherFollow

Thinking quickly, but you could gem the Dragonhide with AP or AGI(not sure if AGI is read offhand. If not disregard.) and gain more resil, also gain more AP (and crit/armor if you can gem AGI and get gem.)

So looking at it, you should actually ask yourself is:

42armor
4resil
9crit
and the gain of more AP through Gemming (nothing saying you couldn't gem the Leather with AP, but I like to use and get cheap gem bonuses when I can and are logically make sense. I mean, if by choosing one I could gain 2resil by gemming a red, vs one you don't, logic dictates to get more bang for your buck.)

Now is that worth the crit gained from 3agi and 4stam? Since if you are going to gem either, 2resil, while a pitance, hey if you can get it without losing anything, go for it.

And I actually put way more thought and wording into this than I planned.

So back to the short answer, off the top of my head, and anything outside of a major overlook, I would take the Kodohide.

i would buy the rogue ones, since i like gemming blue or yellow (steady talasite woo) and that would be a free 2 resil

but then again, im using the heroic badge bracers lol.. so /shrug

It does somewhat. Resilience mitigates your crit chance by 10%. If you get the added crit rating to cancel that, you're back to normal. If you don't, you're critting 10% less (which for us is a bigger deal than you'd think).

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