A new tank stance to fit Dark Knight better

[Kiteless]

Nope, not a fan. While the HP refund might sound as good as a standard 20% mitigation, those blows that do end up hitting extremely hard will make you suffer for it. DRK already has a lot of difficulty with tankbusters as it is, this would only drive the knife deeper. Furthermore, multiple attacks that hit before the next server tick will end up absolutely gutting you, as the lack of mitigation could end up killing you before the server decides to actually refund your HP.

Addressing the other side of this idea, by automating a good portion of DRK damage, you end up getting rid of a lot of the complexity that makes the job interesting in the first place. Now, if you were to incorporate something like this into a vengeance-like cooldown, I could roll with that, but as a full on replacement to our tanking stance, this is just bad.

While there's certainly room to make DRK's tanking stance differentiated from PLD's, this is definitely not a method that I would encourage.