Will I notice a difference?

I just dinged 45 on my Elm/SD/Blaze scrapper and am trying to figure out how to slot Ring of Fire. Will I notice any difference between 46.2% ranged defense and 44.9%? I can either 3 slot RoF with 3 Trap of the Hunter for 1.87% HP bonus or 3 Thunderstrikes for 1.25% Def. Would the higher HP be better then the 1.25% Def, since 44.9% is essentially soft capped anyway?

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Sure, the devs are supposed to listen to their customers, mister business 101 out there. And if I decide to start suggesting that the devs change the game from being about superheroes and supervillains to being about clowns that is my right as well, and technically Paragon Studios is supposed to pay attention to me. But I hope strongly that they assume a meth-head somehow managed to hack into my forum account and make paper airplanes out of my posts, because I hope they recognize stupid when they see it. I assume they will recognize futile just as accurately.

44.9% ranged defense will take 2% more ranged damage, over time. Whether that's worth 1.87% HP is up to you. Personally I would go for the Thunderstrikes, since you also get damage enhancement and my OCD would compel me to get 45+ defense, although to be honest neither choice is going to have a noticeable effect on performance.

Incidentally, if you want a HP bonus, look at Devastation. It has a bigger HP bonus and a regen bonus as well, and shouldn't be vastly more expensive.

Or then, you could go for Char instead of RoF and slot it with the two cheapest pieces of Basilisk's Gaze for the same 2.5 E/N, 1.25 Ranged set bonus.