Fine, Bloodwhetting is too OP

[Shurrikhan]

Like, you’d expect damage output to be extremely high and fast given the amount of oGCDs there are, or for tanks to be taking huge chunks of damage at any given time considering how strong the 40% defensive buffs are on top of everything else they have (Bloodwhetting/Clemency/Veil etc).

Aye. 40% is going to be noticeable, of course, but outside of very precise tankbusters paced specifically to accommodate it, it rarely feels anywhere near necessary. A bit more going into the grinder could make tank actions feel far more potent.

Final funny tidbit:

Even when popping a 40%, the majority of a tank's mitigation is passive. At i730, a tank has 48% passive mitigation (20% from Tank Mastery, 35% from Defense).

[Alice_Rivers]

Final funny tidbit:

Even when popping a 40%, the majority of a tank's mitigation is passive. At i730, a tank has 48% passive mitigation (20% from Tank Mastery, 35% from Defense).

This whole concept is insane to me, worse is the fact that I can still watch tanks melt in dungeons if they don't bother to use their kits.

[Shurrikhan]

Someone gets it.

And it is dspguy, not dpsguy. I'm not that arrogant to claim a handle like that

I don't think most would guess you to be a direct support professional or assume you're going for descessit sine prole either, tbf. A frat (ΔΣΠ) alum, maybe. And most other common expansions of the acronym refer to things, not people, as far as I recall. /shrug

This whole concept is insane to me, worse is the fact that I can still watch tanks melt in dungeons if they don't bother to use their kits.

Well, the damage is tuned --to the extent any hypercasual content is "tuned" at all-- around that passive tank mitigation. Which ultimately means that it's just a composition check by which to nerf to all non-tanks or tank-less parties to make it even less possible to skimp on a tank.

If you could always rotate defensives and/or stack external mit to just barely survive a tank buster as a non-tank and be healed instantly before an auto could finish you, that'd be game-breaking, after all. Tanks aren't *guffaw* healers -- mein gott.