Yes honestly.
They need to stop with the meme of “defenses are specific to X classes”
Sentinels have always had block passives. And res passives, and armor passives. As matter of fact, lots of them didnt change. And we had HH ward gen last patch, sentinel just felt unpolished and jank, and what they missed was damage reduction passives that runemaster and falconer and warlock have, stuff like “8% less damage taken from cursed enemies” etc.
But there is plenty of classes who have 0 armor, 0 evasion, and get shit like 3 ward on minion death etc.
So yeah mages were better then sents, they had 15k ward, ward got slapped down to being slightly more number then health, say 8-10k, but they didnt get any armor or anything to help them bridge actually mitigating any damage.
PoE had a very similar phase, ES was the best thing since sliced bread because it had 20k pool, and armor/evasion were shit. Now ES is more niche and for people on that side of the tree instead of everyone. They buffed baseline armor/evasion on bases, they improved grace/determination, they buffed ev/ar passives, then we had a phase where the armor characters had 3.5k life but 90 all res and 100k armor and were face tanking stuff no problems. Because a big pool means shit if you have no mitigation when mitigation is actually good and available which it wasnt always.
Like a big thing they need to look at is the dodge/armor values for affix. 300 armor for a health suffix is a bad trade most of the time. The way most builds get armor is through bases and or passives. and if you dont have those, you just… dont get good armor values and are squishy.
Dodge is pretty much rogue only because imagine trying to build dodge on not rogue without literally perfect minmax gear, the values are so bad when you dont have a passive that is 5/5 for 35% dodge etc.
