PLD + DRK synergy; WAR falling behind?

[Claire_Pendragon]

I dropped Maim from the calculation because it can be up whither you're in defiance or not. So in Defiance maim mitigates the 25% dip and take you back to 90% of base damage. In Deliverance you're at 126% of base damage (buffs stack multiplicatively). So instead of saying 36% in comparison to baseline, I made having maim a baseline and said there is a 30% damage variance.

Same thing for DRK where I considered Darkness' 15% damage increase baseline and DRK only loses 20% when they Grit.

I think I must have misunderstood what you were talking about, as this doesnt seem to relate to what I was saying. So I must have been thinking the wrong thing.
(Otherwise Maim and Dark Side would have been comparable.)
EDIT: Ok rereading, I did, I thought you meant something else.

You said in your own post that "trash" damage doesn't matter and whatever % of "trash" you mitigate is still trash and surviving tank busters is what mattered. But even then, whatever PLD "passively" mitigated, WAR and DRK mitigated as well via self heals and higher parry. But again this is not even worth discussing for the simple fact whatever % of 0 is still 0.

I was trying to be a bit more exaggeration/over simplifying, to get an idea across, but I'm confused where % of 0 is 0 came from.
EDIT: I think I get what you mean now, if I assume correctly, you mean its "0" because if its irrelevant, then it should be treated as 0, correct?

But back to the topic, if surviving the tank busters is all that matters while dishing out the most damage, then unless the math on PLD doing 30% more damage over the other two is true, PLD will stay out of the meta as it is the worst out of the three.

I dont see how a tank with more survival of the 3 would make it worse than the other 2, while also including the early builds +30% more DPS.
Did I misunderstand?