It makes little to no difference when your toon has 6000+ armor without crit mods, around 5500+ with. I would post pics of the armor i have but some folks seem to think that pics with high stats are misleading. Heh, okay.
The point here is not really about hard and easy. Its about the skewed numbers that everything has. You cant even do a simple formula to min max stats because the numbers are all over the place. Nobody to this day even know where the number on the mods came from. The description on the mod says 7 but after you install it, it says 48.688, or 58.567...or 68.789, depending on your level and/or sc. What ass were these numbers pulled from. Theres no defined formula here for anything.
However, on the challenge side of things....since thats all we have right now....for the most part, i purposely stayed off the tech tree this second run. I think i may have 5 in the tech tree atm but i wont be putting anymore there. Ill just keep updated green mods on all the gear so that my opness will be in fact more.....lets say, purposely unmanageable.