Dark Knight : Just another mitigation tank

[Ultimatecalibur]

Indeed, that's the idea behind a Dread Spike effect that leech a flat percentage of damage taken.

By leeching back 20% it would have the same overall effect that Defiance and Shield Oath, except when the hit is supposed to kill you. To compensate for that "flaw", the damage you leech could be reflected back at your opponent.

Reflecting back percentages of damage taken is similarly broken due to scaling. If a stance/ability has a reflect/counter attack effect it need to scale with the player and not the enemies, otherwise its either useless or to good.

A Tank with an incoming damage based reflect stance would make A4 a joke.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Dark Knight should be about Lifetaps+Dots. Sort of a Melee version of Arcanist's play-style with a lot more Oomph! An ability like Bane as well that spreads the dots.

Reflecting back percentages of damage taken is similarly broken due to scaling. If a stance/ability has a reflect/counter attack effect it need to scale with the player and not the enemies, otherwise its either useless or to good.

A Tank with an incoming damage based reflect stance would make A4 a joke.

No issue. Damage reflected back can be capped by level. =)

[Reynhart]

No issue. Damage can be capped by level. =)

Capped by HP max, like Mercy Stroke, Soul Survivor, Stoneskin, etc...

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Also, since damage reduction hurts a DRK his temps can instead be:

"Damage taken, instead heals you."

The down side to that is. One shots will still kill you since damage happens before it heals you. So you might need Vitality gear.