Thanks for playing Horned!
Wow looks like you found a good build to go about long runs! Yea right now there's no weighted chance of dropping loot that gives bonus to a good spread of stats, so it could be why you went long stretches without getting a good piece of defence equipment! You might have gotten really lucky and got a god roll on defence where the item base bonus coincided with the suffix defence bonus to give whooping amounts of defence!
Yes a lot of work went into the writing my @junkgolem!