Quote Originally Posted by shao32 View Post
oxfor diccionary: mitigation: Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful.
Bringing a dictionary definition to a discussion is the fastest way to make me ignore your point. That said:

I wish I could write this in with a realistic approach, but instead I'll address it in a controlled, simplistic environment. For the sake of this argument, we'll be comparing two Dark Knights -

Tank A - DRK in Grit doing sub-optimal DPS so that they can use DA+DM on a boss who deals exclusively magic damage.
Tank B - DRK out of Grit doing optimal DPS and not burning DA, but still using DM since the boss deals exclusively magic damage.

Tank A can be assumed to dish ~650 dps, due to the sub-optimal situation. This is an over-estimation, because we're assuming 0 Power Slashes.
Tank B can be assumed to dish ~1000 dps, due to optimal damage output and not using Grit. This is an under-estimation, because we're assuming multiple Power Slashes to maintain hate.

Let's say the boss has 65,000 health and will deal 500 dps to the tank via their strictly magic damage offensive attacks. We're assuming health is a non-issue and just looking at "how much damage does my tank take before the monster dies."

Tank A will kill the boss in 100 seconds.
Tank B will kill the boss in 65 seconds.

Tank A takes 500*0.8 = 400 dps from the mob.
Tank B takes 500 dps from the mob.

We will assume a cooldown rotation as follows, for mitigation:
0-20s - Shadowskin
20-30s - Shadow Wall
30-40s - Dark Mind
90-100s - Dark Mind + Shadowskin

Tank A:
0-20s = 400*0.8*20 = 6400 damage taken
20-30s = 400*0.7*10 = 2800 damage taken
30-40s = 400*0.7*10 = 2800 damage taken
40-90s = 400*50 = 20000 damage taken
90-100s = 400*0.7*0.8*10 = 2240 damage taken

Tank B
0-20s = 500*0.8*20 = 8000
20-30s = 500*0.7*10 = 3500
30-40s = 500*0.85*10 = 4250
40-65s = 500*25 = 12500


Tank A takes 34240 damage before the boss dies.
Tank B takes 28250 damage before the boss dies.

Tank B mitigated 6000 damage by using an optimal rotation to pump out more offense compared to Tank A.
We can talk about DA+SE health leech, but health leech is not mitigation.

Shrug?