Dark Knight Megathread

[Ryaduera]

...No. That's not how mitigation types work. Having a bit of something else and less of the first thing does not give you the full benefits of both.

How much damage does the percentile mitigation component of Holy Shelltron, Bloodwhetting, or Heart of Corundum absorb? That whole portion, which far exceeds the healing value in any 8-second span that'd require mitigation, does not scale with gear. I.e., the majority of Holy Shelltron, Heart of Corundom, and Bloodwhetting unless holding Primal and 1 or 2 Infuriates, does not scale with gear.

The entirety of TBN, on the other hand, scales with gear.

Again, that's not always a good thing --i.e., if one is undergeared for the given piece of content, in which case content-based scaling would be preferable-- but being a hybrid, under the same (well, less, typically) total throughput, does not give the full benefit of both types.

Healing is a form of damage mitigation. Getting health back is very important and if it can be stacked with mitigations the health returned is also more valuable, so the flat percentage is frequently applied to the HP regained as well, meaning yes, the mitigation does scale off gear as well as long as there is a heal attached to the mitigation. It only does not scale with gear if the mitigation either doesn't provide damage reduction after the fact or doesn't provide an HP return during the damage reduction duration. Anyone who says healing is not a form of damage mitigation needs their tank que times revoked.

To be clear, a heal that doesn't overheal and a shield that protect before damage are only distinguishable from eachother in terms of mitigation when the shield provided actually prevents death. Otherwise they are, in effect, the same value if the heal is the same. Heals are only weaker because they happen after damage is taken rather than before, but there's not a single mechanic where a shield is necessary to survive it in the first place, so it's redundant, and even if it was necessary, we have SCH and SGE for it anyway. This means in any sutuation that brought, as an example, Heart of Corrundum to the point the heal activates during the mitigation period and didn't outright kill the tank, then there is no situation where HoC alone didn't mitigate more than TBN even if you stacked it with Oblation. This is especially apparent on tank busters.