Tanks, what do you wish healers knew about you?

[Sodamachine]

Anyone want to explain to me why tanks don't use cover half the time when we get bashed on? Long GCD? Lowers attack?
Lowers emnity? Huge mp cost? .

If it is just one enemy, its just simpler to take him off you, instead of making sure you dont get that one hit, and then take him off you.
Same goes with 2-4 enemies. Usually a normal Flash or other AoE Emnity attacks is enough to take back Hate.

If you for some reason have a lot of emnity on multiple targets (How you now managed to do that), then Cover is useful.

[Shurrikhan]

If it is just one enemy, its just simpler to take him off you, instead of making sure you dont get that one hit, and then take him off you.
Same goes with 2-4 enemies. Usually a normal Flash or other AoE Emnity attacks is enough to take back Hate.

If you for some reason have a lot of emnity on multiple targets (How you now managed to do that), then Cover is useful.

I have yet to test this thoroughly, but it could largely because your damage taken, not damage dealt to you, is redirected. In other words, if a tank covers an ability that would one-shot you but deal minor damage to him, he'll be one-shot too. At least the last time I covered a MT with nearly every CD up I still melted like butter, taking damage identical (from what I could see from the floating combat text on the MT) to what he was taking, despite his being out of CDs.

That said, I cover frequently. my most common use for it lately has been on Leviathan, covering laggy healers or dps to prevent their being crushed when they don't seem to be far enough to escape the blow (given latency) but do seem far enough to avoid falling off, or when the rails are still attached. I haven't been crushed myself yet, so I don't know if I'm taking mitigated or unmitigated damage there.

Edit: We can't save you from magic, by the way. Just physical attacks, and only when you're not running away from us and we don't need to run away from you.

[Kitru]

I have yet to test this thoroughly, but it could largely because your damage taken, not damage dealt to you, is redirected.

They fixed that in 2.2. The base damage is now split between the PLD and the Covered target so that mitigation CDs and other effects actually affect the damage so you don't have a PLD taking 2k cover damage from an attack that would normally hit them for 1.5k because it landed on a clothie.