Quote Originally Posted by AnjouMaaka View Post
You clearly have never seen this video. Please watch it and straighten out your tank knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCEovQvASsY
I mean... mitigation is just anything that prevents you from being OS by a tank burster. Wether you reduce incoming damage or shield yourself, if by the end the result is that you didn't die from the blow it's kind of the same.
Healing is different. A war could very well heals for 100% of their hp gcd swing, that won't help prevent a OS.

I really don't see the need to subclassify these things. Sure in practice they scale differently, a shield is stronger the weaker the attack is but so long as it prevents you from going from 100 to 0 in a single hit, that's mitigation.. you mitigated the attack..