Well feel free to enjoy your imaginary Gellius while us Deine users watch her wreak havoc and tank everything at the same time.
I would trade my 2 gelliuses for grace ; ) Because i feel throwing fireballs-heavy armor is cooler than lazy and boring tank : ) and i have bernice for tanking purposes : )
bernice is not even close to having the same tanking power as gelius , but whatever.
@tenhou - i guess its a matter of preffference
To be fair, Deine is a better physical tank than Gellius and can deal 1k+ aoe dps to boot. She might be more expensive, but during the times when you cannot afford to place a good tank anyways Bernice will suffice, really.
Gellius only good part is that he gets some MR too but on higher tier maps you're seldom faced with both those at the same time and if you are, you will want two separate tanks to handle those types of damage anyways. I mean, i doubt Gellius would be able to handle 2-3 liches blasting him while tanking some mega golem anyways.
I thought Gellius could surpass Deine in Defense during Skill too? (since Deine's skill affects her attack and attack speed, not her defense, her defense is static where his increases during skill)
And if you EVER see liches AND a mega-hard-hitter melee, who in their right mind would tank them all with the same unit regardless of stats (excepting Karma immortality)? You'd probably block the melee with Deine/Gellius/Anya/Olivie with skill and use Sophie/Clissa/Sybilla/Dahlia as lightning rod for the liches.
Agree Gellius' MR bonus is overrated, it's useful but not nearly enough to tank liches + hard hitters at once.
Most people that i heared have gellius AND deine but use gellius over deine say so cause theres nothing that gellius cant tank wich deine could and that shes just ways to expensive.
And yes gellius skill especialy when leveling with rainbows beats deines defence by far.