



As a Barb you want to get elemental resistances on your items cause you can increase armor infinitely with strength (paragon and augments). What makes you really tanky most of the time ( appart from set bonuses, buffs, items with specific damage reduction multipliers like band of might or Aquila cuirass ) is armor and elemental resistance. However during early progression until you have tones of main stats, it’s not that unusual to dump a couple hundreds of paragon points into vitality if you feel like you really need it. That’s why most of the guides don’t suggest putting more points into vitality. Vitality is somewhat important I guess but most of the time the vit you get from torso, helmet, pants, boots, belt is enough and ideally you don’t want vitality on your amulets/rings and weapons since the other affixes are more important. And when you augment you still do it to increase the main stat. Usually you wanna spend your paragon into your main stat as it will give damage reduction.
