Quote Originally Posted by Ceodore View Post
Convalescence well before hand to increase potency of shield cast on you by healer (As the healer is suppose to do) Foresight to reduce physical damage, Awareness to ensure the hit is not critical. You assume to think that you're using all these skills right when the hit is coming. Again, a sign of a sub par tank. Utilize each one to their fullest by predicting what your party is going to do. Every healer should know to shield for a tank crunch, if your mitigation alone is all you are relying on, then I suggest you find a better healer. What use is Convalescence for mitigating damage after the fact of the damage? None. Utilize it before the damage to boost the preparing skills a healer is suppose to use and suddenly a healing skill becomes a damage mitigating skill.
You're talking raid coordination that the other tanks wouldn't require because they have actual defensive cooldowns to mitigate the damage.

So the other two tanks have abilities that can just deal with the tank buster on their own without the need for healers to have any idea what they're doing. But the DRK requires the healers to be on the ball for that 3rd hit because he can't do anything about it on his own. That doesn't sound very balanced.

What happens when you graduate from PUG level Odin to actual raids that require the tank to pop a strong mitigation ability in addition to healer coordination to handle the really big tank busters? You're not seeing the problem here?