Quote Originally Posted by Paikis View Post
I really wish you people (and you specifically) would stop trying to tell me what I can and cannot do.
I'll tell you what is mathematically possible and probable. There is, quite literally, *no way* that you're getting 2.1k from an Inner Beast with only Maim and Storm's Eye. You can say it all you want, but it's mathematically impossible for you to do it. The very fact that you think it's even "plausible* means that none of your numbers can be trusted because you, quite obviously, have a monumentally skewed (and quite possibly inaccurate) perspective.

I question whether you've actually done any of the fights you're talking about. I regularly tank Caduceus with 2 stacks and he simply does not hit that hard.
I didn't say 2 stack Caduceus. I said Cad with more than 2 stacks. When he gets to 3+ stacks, he starts hitting on the level I'm talking about, which is exactly the kind of situation with high damage that gets talked about.

on our first kill I tanked him until 7 stacks.
Which means that you were kiting him so that you weren't getting hit (which means nothing, because I've seen a BRD "tank" Cad up to 8 stacks by kiting). At 7 stacks, a single Tail Swipe is going to kill you even from full.

Who is talking about those fights? Certainly not me.
You *must* be talking about those fights because you're acting as if the situations in which the amount of damage that you need to take in order to make the new IB better are in the minority. The only way that *that* is happening is if you're bringing up those fights. If you only look at coil, 75% of the boss fights will hit you hard enough that IB is better in its new incarnation.

It's almost like Kitru didn't even read the first paragraph of the thread where I state that I use Gryphonskin.
I did. The fact that you somehow claimed that the average difference performance of IB in raid was 40% higher than you tested immediately made me doubt any number that you provide because there is *no* way you're spontaneously doing 40% more damage just because you're in a group.

The issue is, as previously mentioned, that you're using an unrealistic gear loadout that is specifically *designed* to maximize damage and the performance of the current Inner Beast at the cost of traditional tank stats. For anyone *not* using overmelded Gryphonskin (i.e. people using tank gear that the devs actually expected to be tank gear), the new Inner Beast is going to be a huge upgrade. For anyone using the overmelded Gryphonskin, they're still going to get better performance out of the new Inner Beast (because you take a lot more damage in those 6 second windows than you're acting like), but not as much.