User blog comment:Fartbrain33/Fashion's Dogma 2015/@comment-5847779-20150330001107/@comment-5847779-20150330110340

In Dragons Dogma damage is more important than defense. If your damage output is high enough enemies will not be able to attack you back because you will kill or juggle them to prevent them from doing damage. Plus remember: a downed Pawn can be instantly revived.

In DD there's two types of players. The ones that go for stats and the ones that go for looks. You can't please both, but as long as your damage dealing stats are good you'll be able to sway at least some of the former group. :)

But seriously 60 defense is not going to matter on a defense of 600. If your pawn is going to die it will die. Just make sure you level your pawn correctly so it's base stats are good. It's a hassle to be sure, but if you want people to hire him/her then you need to put some effort in either way.