Talk:Armor of the Wolf/@comment-184.90.174.0-20131017205523/@comment-82.168.125.187-20131019165010

A high defense is advantageous in most situations because your knight lives longer. As long as you have enough attack power to kill the opponent in 1 blow defense is the only thing that matters. You can assess the nominal strength of an armour by multiplying the attack (damage to the opponent) by the defense (number of blows it can give). Use the numbers of your knights wearing it.

In practice you have to measure strength by number of hits you can give the opponent and the amount of damage you create. defense should only be measured in the number of hits you survive. So it all depends on the strength of your opponent. In normal level fights against relatively weak opponents a high defense and lower attack will be advantageous. For (epic) boss fights it won't matter which side the ratio is on.

Nominally an armour with a balanced attack/defence is stronger because simple maths says that x^2 is more than (x+1)(x-1).