HP or Defense for Saints?

[DrTed]

Which should be prioritized more? Defense (takes less damage) or HP (can take more hits?)

I ask this because I'm debating going for RDNL (currently using IDN U/Coma U for defense). RDNL gives so much more health (and offense stats, but stacking damage is kinda meh imo for saints).

[Lemon]

The difference in defense is relatively small for clerics with rdnl. I'd only bother getting the hat though.

[DrTed]

I was thinking the same of just getting RDNL helm for the Tree of Life gem.

[Young]

I honestly havent noticed much difference with theano over my rdnl's but eh

[DrTed]

I looked at a gear sim and RDNL+12 shirt gives 240k+ hp in enhancements. I think theano+12 give 120k. Much more hp but much less defense (from looking at other Saint's build on the "post your stats" about a ~7-10k physical defense difference, surprisingly-not-surprisingly little difference in M-def).

[Cipherel]

Seeing as how you get defense and hp from vit stat and mdef and dmg from int, you should be stacking both anyway.