Bozjan Southern Front Essence of the Irregular: Bugged or Intentional?

[Driavna]

Sounds way overtuned. Damage taken by 200% is absolutely massive and tanks natural high defense stats + 20% damage reduction is never going to compensate for something like that.

You can see it's meant to be a high risk for high damage sort of deal, but it simply turns you into a liability and you'd be better off going Platebearer dps or Martialist.

Normal DPS stance for tanks is martialist. Irregular essence is there for players that know what they are doing, I already saw a pro player clearing Castrum with Irregular, this player needed to use tank invu for stuff like double holy and very tight use of all others CDs. Deep essence of the Irregular increase damage for a little bit more of 100%, that with a DPS banner and slash is a lot of damage. Pretty much the idea is to turn tanks into glass cannon DPS.

Another option is not picking slash and use reflect, works on most wide AoE since they are magical. It's needed for Red choco for example.