Dark Knight Megathread

[Terhix]

The number of hits is relevant because if there's more than 1 hit ( which happens only one, cuz its 1 hit, right? ) then % mitigation like Heart of light or Dark Missionary will mitigate successive hits too.

That's completely irrelevant. If you take 5 hits that each does 10% of total HP of average DPS / Healer before mitigation, then with Shake it off party takes 35% of their total HP (0%, 5%, 10%, 10%, 10%) while with DM the party takes 45% of their total HP (9% * 5), which means Shake it off would have mitigated 3 times the damage despite doing nothing at all after the second hit, and the math would have been identical were it a single hit for 50% HP.

Edit: actually let me correct this, it's mostly irrelevant, I can see you could argue for mitigation over 15 seconds making healing easier even if the total damage is higher but less spiky towards the end.