General tanking equipment question

[Kamodus]

Ok, I've never played a tanking class in any MMORPG (beastlord and priest), so I thought with Vanguard I try something with a little different flavor. My question is, which is more important general stats (dex, str, con) or Raw stats (hp, ac), or Absorption.

Like I said I'm new to tanking but, from the knowledge I gather from eq was that AC and Mitigation were more important that HP. Would this logic still hold true in this game. At level 15 my defense is roughly 2600, reason i mention this is that I've been equipping myself with AC items and mostly physical absorption gear. So hopefully I haven't been going the wrong direction with my gear choices.

Any information is most welcome and sorry in advance if this has already been asked/answered

Kamodus 15 Dread Knight Shidreth

[velzevul]

I am level 18 DRK atm,

and so far I have been leaning towards raw AC, followed by DEXT, by STR.

I havent encountered a significant amount of physical absorbtion items to consider them yet, nonetheless, by what formulas do they work, any ideas?

[VereAthor]

I am not overly concerned about selecting gear until reaching at least the 30s. I change equipment too often...
Good equipment comes with stats, but the armor I would choose primarily for mitigation, just to lessen the load of the poor healers as there is no stat (at least to my knowledge) that gives you the same amount of protection.
My thinking is high mitigation plus high DEX = good avoidance and mitigation tank. At least as long as I can't lay my hands on the effects of the resists you get with CON.