Originally Posted by
SociableTyrannosaur
You do realize the reason people call you a troll is that your arguments really do contradict the experiences of most others. Furthermore, your supporting evidence whenever is does involve numbers is always heavily skewed to support your argument to the point that it touches on the impossible(high level character with 1* equipment, no affixes and no set bonuses?...wut?). Even telling people to focus on defense seems silly when cheap armor maxed out will let someone survive a direct hit from a lvl 60 infection 3 Rigshryda. I wouldn't say defense should be ignored, obviously, but to advise people to forego high damage output to be able to take 4-5 hits instead of 3 is asinine.
Also no one that I've seen blindly agrees with anyone. The most common posters in the guide section have no qualms with voicing other views when they have them. It just so happens there are certain things that we all have accepted as being optimal choices for "traditional" builds.
If you want to argue for something that you disagree with the majority on(going back to your feeling that fury stance>brave stance.) You need to provide compelling evidence that doesn't scream personal bias. I mean you showed Brave stance doing 14% damage more than an attack with no stance at all. It's actually kind of insulting to put that kind of info out and not expect anyone to call bullshit.
Anyway you're entitled to your opinion and your play style, but a lot of your "facts" are just plain bad data and if you want to be taken seriously in these discussions, you should probably rethink how you get your numbers and try to remember that the skills and/or builds that we recommend are looking specifically at current end game, where people have respectable gear. It's really not wise to invest your SP assuming you're going to be using the same gear from lvl 1 to lvl 55.