Dark Knight Changes - Suggestion.

[AnjouMaaka]

Yes, by the very dictionary definition of "mitigation", damage shields in this game are mitigation.

So you too have resorted to the brain damaged thought process.

This isn't hard to understand. Shields do not reduce damage received. They absorb damage equal to the amount of HP the shield has, but they do not reduce the damage received. You still take the damage. The shield just absorbs part of it. That's not mitigation. You didn't mitigate anything. Ask all the dark knights that still think TBN is a mitigation how that's been working for them. I can promise you they are all in the grave every time they resort to that mindset. That, or they have a very angry healer who had to blow everything keeping them alive. But, most likely the former, because NA and EU healers don't heal tanks in dungeons, or if they do, it's to troll warrior mains by making the run slower, or to grief Living Dead.

So in layman's terms, you are brain damaged because you don't understand what the word "reduce" means.



Mitigations:
Rampart
Reprisal
Shadow Wall
Sentinel

Shields:
TBN
Adloquium
Haima

Healing:
Equilibrium
Cure II
Excogitation

We classify shields separate from mitigation for a reason. You are wrong. Accept it and move on instead of doubling down on spreading misinformation. You are not making the attack do less damage with a shield. Only an actual mitigation can do that.