Battle mode rule#1 Query...

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Ok....a few days ago i found what i call the best armor in pso ver.2....the sacred cloth with 1 slot
there are 2 diferent things i must consider....the normal gameplay and battle mode
-on normal gameplay i use a sense plate 3 slots with 1 god battle and 2 perfect resistst, i see traps (armor), i atack fast and i have a hig resistance to techs (52/52/52/42/47), well the sacred cloth is not so good as i expected; in vhard the sacred cloth combined with deband makes my def go above 1000 making me untouchable to any criature phisical atacks, the sense plate is good because i can see traps and def is something i do not need in vhard.
on ultimate i rarely get hit on forest/caves and the 3 first bosses, in the mines i get hitted by sinows and on ruins i get hitted often, but even on ruins i do not use deband (waste of tp in my opinion), i basicly use the def i got.
the problem with the sacred cloth is the lack of trap vision and the lack of slots, resistances i do not like to lose and trap vissions are not as usefull as an armor (see all the traps), basicly i am the best in skill, so the armor is not what i need to become better.
- then comes batle mode, in this mode you fight against other players.....well, imagine this situation, 2 players one with skill (me) and another with stats (def and evp), i can win but it will be very hard even for me to hit the enemy and the enemy will hit me easily due to low def and average evp, to even the odds i equip the rare armor increasing drasticly the def, but i also lose some stuff so my questions are to see what to chose in batle mode.....make comments also (opinions)
1- what is the char that you see more on b.mode?
2- what is the char that you see less on batle mode?
3- are traps usefull in b.mode?
4- are techs usefull in batle mode? if so witch is used the most/wich is used less often?
hope i can see your point of view