Quote Originally Posted by Thela View Post
Unlike PLD & DRK tank stances, Defiance doesn't actually affect your damage intake in any meaningful way. It gives you a slight amount of parry rating based on your beast gauge (up to 10%) and more hp and that's about it. Mainly the reason to go into defiance is either for higher enmity or access to inner beast / steel cyclone (self healing) but rarely for reduction to dmg taken (outside the 20% dmg reduction for 6 seconds from inner beast for tankbusters).
See this i was not aware of. that is a huge help. my guess is i thought the difference was because of increased dmg resist. but must be it was the self heals. Ill have to have a talk with my healer. and see if i cant get him to get a better heal rotation.