What classes benefit most from gear progression

[Keebz]

Add to that Shaman wins priest.

For hybrid, I wanna say it's Paladin. Ranger has a bunch of cool clickies, but don't benefit as much from general upgrades (which I believe is the spirit of the question) due to the AC nonsense and their spells being ass.

With SK, if you're a big boy, your stats are already pretty solid, so less benefit there, add to that you fear kite a lot, which means you're about as effective with or without big HP/AC items half the time. Bard obviously needs like nothing to be amazing.

Special shout out to Monk though. Really scales nicely with weapons, HP, and AC. Just doesn't need it as much as Warriors, which can do literally nothing without decent gear. There's definitely an interpretation of this question where Monk is the answer.