Force Armour is quite nice. I never used it in the past, but tried it for a while a few weeks back. Before they changed to that new map I would definitely have skilled it for TDM.
I would also include FA in a hunt/open field-setup, if I weren't too lazy to reskill for that...
The thing is, it's most effective against all those that are not barbs or boss-geared archers. Karma Mirror is better against those, though your best defenses will always be trees and range, as others said.
But though ones gut feeling may say otherwise, most archers are not bossgeared, so it's still quite beneficial to be able to tank them better.
Since I am too cheap to get both KM and FA at lvl5, I dropped FA. Unlike KM, FA is noticeable even on lvl1, but I found I were too busy casting other stuff to fit yet another self defense buff in there.
(And I like to get into the thick of warriors too much, so I need KM.)
After struggling severely with survival myself after coming back as a lvl50's non-WM conj, I focused on gear with good armour,resists and HP.
"Good" resists for me are mainly focused on slash/pierce, since again, most players do not deal a majority of elemental damage.
Since many care more about mana and CS, I got most cheap off the Auction House. Even without Force Armour I now have more AP than many barbs, and all G/VG vs slash and pierce.
And when I reskill, the first tree I max is the WM tree, +700 HP is impossible to say no to...
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