What I do and was happy with it.
Use armor until you get lvl 30 and get your nukes, because you're using weapons skills most of time and lionshout.
When you reach lvl 30, you can 1 hit mobs eaasily, so you can switch to garment and use the 20% mana reduction and fast movement to your advantage. If a mob cant hit you, you can save a lot of MP pots and HP pots with your nukes.
