DRK feels weak

[Shurrikhan]

You're being pedantic.

And relabeling perfectly fine terms like "mitigation" (literally, reduction) and "healing" into, respectively, "proactive mitigation" and "reactive mitigation" is not?

We don't need to reinvent the wheel here.

And for what it's worth, the word "mitigate" literally means "to make less severe or painful or to lessen the gravity/effect of" and heals in this context perfectly fit that definition. Healing of the aforementioned type does in fact lessen the severity, pain, and gravity of the damage taken."

Healing a hit after the fact literally does nothing to reduce the severity of the blow itself. It just heals it. If I get cancer and am later cured, I didn't get less cancer just because I later recovered. (Had I gotten something else on top of it, there's all the more chance I'd be dead; the recovery was not instantaneous.)

If mitigation was exclusive to shields and percentages then Arm's Length wouldn't be considered mitigation either.

Arm's Length is literally reduced incoming auto-attack rate by 20%. It is a percentage.

I've been hearing proactive and reactive used with the word mitigation since 2007... nobody is reinventing anything. Not to sound like an old man but I've been around the block.

I'm no stranger to MMO or moba jargon, either, and each time I've heard the terms come up, I've heard people ask them to likewise just call healing "healing" and not "reactive damage reduction" or the like.

It's like this.

It's like this. You are purposely using a needlessly convoluted oxymoron that offers no more distinction than the terms already used by the vast majority of the community, all while saying that anyone who doesn't use your rarer nomenclature

needs their tank que times revoked.

Why call healing "reactive mitigation" when your term includes nothing more and nothing less than was already included in the normal term? Simple as that, man.

You've started these off by berating others for using what is literally just the normal definition of mitigation, to reduce. Yes, mitigation and healing, or your proactive and "reactive" mitigation, can amount to much the same thing when you have enough eHP in the first place, just like a discount and a refund, respectively, amount to the same thing when you have enough money. That doesn't make it impossible for that to be a factor.

And even in the contexts in which they amount to the same, why would you go out of your way to 'correct' people, across multiple threads, just for using the word i.e., per its literal and most common definition ("to reduce" -- not, to recover or refund) instead of a 'close enough' approximation that only leads to more convoluted terminology?

I've realize I've done some something alike in arguing that the conventional terms are sufficient and more intuitive, but whatever. Hopefully we're done at this point.