Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
The same applies to pretty much every other tank that forgets they can use their short duration mitigation on someone else. Granted paladin is the only one that can put Intervention on someone else and then use Shelltron for themselves.
I don't think it's a coincidence or an accident that WAR and PLD - the two lower-damage tanks - are able to make strong use of this.

PLD is able to use (Rampart/Sentinel-buffed) Intervention and Sheltron at the same time to get 28% mitigation and 1000 potency of healing on one tank, and 15% direct mitigation, an additional 20% Block on the initial hit (which is 33%-50% of the total damage, even if Block doesn't affect the DoT), and 1000 potency on themselves.
WAR is able to use Nascent Flash instead of Bloodwhetting to give 19% mitigation, a 400 potency shield, and 1600 potency of healing to one tank, while still giving themself a 400 potency shield and 1600 potency of healing.


It's a drastic difference in defensive power that the early prog/speedkill meta tanks just don't have, and I wouldn't be completely surprised if, by the end of the tier, there turns out to be some appreciation for those tanks from more mid-level groups, even if the high-end raiders are still mostly just mad about DPS. (Though it's still more likely that the high-end opinions simply continue to trickle down into the community at large.)