2 very unrelated questions 
First:
Everybody seems to make their Heart of the Oak in a flail. Why not use a war hammer instead? Flail has str req 41 and dex req 35 whereas war hammer only has str req 53. The minimum str req anyone could get by with would be 50 from shako or arachnid mesh so the extra 3 (and only 1 if using shako) from HotO in a war hammer seems negligible compared to a dex req of 35. A typical caster would have no dex reqs on other items so that's more or less 20 extra dex (again 18 with shako) needed.
Am I missing something obvious to everybody else?
Second:
I upgraded my duriels shell to a great hauberk but the def seems lower than it should be:
My Duriels Case has 178% ED and +115 def from my lvl. That gives 676 since armours with +%ED always has max'ed def and cuirass' max i 202. 202*2,78+115 = 676. A great hauberk's max on the other hand is 501 so that should give 501*2,78 + 115 = 1508. But it only ended up having 1249, which implies that the great hauberk counts as having only around 400 def.
Can anybody enlighten my to why that is?
First:
Everybody seems to make their Heart of the Oak in a flail. Why not use a war hammer instead? Flail has str req 41 and dex req 35 whereas war hammer only has str req 53. The minimum str req anyone could get by with would be 50 from shako or arachnid mesh so the extra 3 (and only 1 if using shako) from HotO in a war hammer seems negligible compared to a dex req of 35. A typical caster would have no dex reqs on other items so that's more or less 20 extra dex (again 18 with shako) needed.
Am I missing something obvious to everybody else?
Second:
I upgraded my duriels shell to a great hauberk but the def seems lower than it should be:
My Duriels Case has 178% ED and +115 def from my lvl. That gives 676 since armours with +%ED always has max'ed def and cuirass' max i 202. 202*2,78+115 = 676. A great hauberk's max on the other hand is 501 so that should give 501*2,78 + 115 = 1508. But it only ended up having 1249, which implies that the great hauberk counts as having only around 400 def.
Can anybody enlighten my to why that is?