Tank carrying in Season 3 Feast

[SuperZay]

Just don't go above 4 stacks and you're good.

That made me wonder how much damage tank actually takes with 4 stacks in dps stance. It's 48% more damage taken, but tanks passively take 5% less physical damage than melee dps and 20% less than casters. So if bard's burst does ~9k hp on a melee dps which has 10k hp, and tank has 14.8k, then doing that burst on him will damage for 9k*(148%-5%)=13k HP. So if that burst suddenly starts at 87% HP it might kill a tank instantly. Even if not, it'll force him to pop all cooldowns, likely leaving defenceless for the next burst. Switching to defence stance for the last 2-3 minutes is probably a good idea if your team is leading.

[Februs]

Even if not, it'll force him to pop all cooldowns, likely leaving defenceless for the next burst.

ALL, is usually overkill.

Rampart and Sentinel reduce dmg by 20 and 40% respectively, regardless of type. Vengeance and Inner beast do the same at 30% and 20% respectively, and they can also self-buff their Hp for extra inflation. As long as they're getting at least some form of direct healing, then they should be okay. Popping multiple buffs at a time would only be something to do if the healer is not providing direct healing for some reason, but in that case you're likely to die anyway, so those buffs would go to waste. War's would have the hardest judgement call to make, because they also use their CD's for stacks of Wrath/Abandon, rather than mitigation ... which is probably why I see more War's die in Feast than Pld's.

Regardless, when it comes to self-mitigation, I think the tanks are in a good spot. When it comes to party-mitigation/support, I'm not as certain.