Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
No, you don't. I've tanked it at lower ilvls. That's the whole point. You never needed much of anything to survive because it simply isn't hitting hard enough. The healer was at a much lower ilvl than me yet still only used Aetherpact. Like I said, adding Raw/Nascent or Equilibrium is all I need to do there. Although, given I have every cooldown by that point. In prog, I'll overmitigate and it basically doesn't exist. In fact, I've healed myself through it because Warrior. For the third fight of the tier, it shouldn't be that easy, especially when it's essentially the last "big" attack he does.
Mathematically you do. You can deny that all you want, but when you tanked it at lower iLvl either you mitigated more or you received more healing. The 12 hits come out over a span of 18 seconds. You ain't healing yourself through it, even on WAR, without proper mitigation. The total damage dealt by it to one tank before mitigation is 275k total, roughly. You said you used Rampart at i470. That's believable. By your own admission you dipped to 12k HP. Without further mit/heals, at entry ilvl, you would have died.

The only real bad thing about that fight's design is that the auto attacks don't continue to tick for most of his mechanics.