What Would You Do? Scaled Hide vs. Silk Swatch

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I'm usually very decisive, but time and again I'm at a crossroads: Hide or Swatch?

92% Armor Absorption, 64% Bleed, and 69% Poison Resistance. Or 78%, 82%, and 84%.

WWYD?

[frdnwsm]

Doesn't that rather depend on your other resistance sources? You might have other sources of poison and bleed resistance. Having said that, I'd be inclined to go with the Hide, since poison and bleed resistances can be gotten elsewhere. I picked up Dryad early in the game to help deal with poison, for example.

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Silk swatch adds pierce and bleed resist btw. Not poison and bleed. I'd go for scaled hide if you don't need the pierce resist from silk swatch as you would only be making use of the bleed resist on it. Try to find other sources of bleed res.