Quote Originally Posted by Devils View Post
That is the biggest issue, it just isn't worth it to currently lose you wrath stacks on anything other than IB but then you better have infuriate up to get the stacks back. Cause if you are in a bad enough situation to cause you to use IB you REALLY NEED the healing bonus of Defiance.........
Holding your wrath stacks currently means you are doing it wrong. I'm not saying use IB on cooldown, but you should use it every time you take a large hit or drop below halfish.

Using your Wrath stacks will heal you for anywhere between 1k and up to 4k (my highest so far is 3.7k and I average 1.8-2k without Berserk) and will only cost you 7% incoming heals. Yes, I said 7%.

If you take the 15% bonus as the baseline (1.15 modifier) then you remove the bonus (1.00 modifier) you are losing 13% of the heals you could have been getting [1-(1.00/1.15)=~0.13 = 13% less heals]. As you rebuild your wrath stacks, you gain part of that healing bonus back every few seconds, you end up with 0 stacks for 5 seconds, 1 stack for 2.5 seconds, 2 stacks for 5 seconds, 3 stacks for 2.5 seconds 4 stacks for 5 seconds and then you're at full. If you take the difference between the healing you WOULD have got, and look at the average healing you DID get when you used Inner Beast, it works out to 7% less average healing over the 20 seconds.

Inner Beast is really good, and the healing bonus is really... ok. Why would you NOT use the stacks?