Balancing WAR: A Game of Graphs

[Gamemako]

Your burst mitigation graphs seem a little confusing because they rely on monster DPS still, when it should be a large single hit or hit over a short period of time (i.e. just look at how proportionally Inner Beast fares against different levels of burst, 3k, 4k, 5k, 6k, 7k, etc.)

That's really more about burst HP, though -- whether you survive the one big hit. My consideration is how much damage is mitigated; that is, I want to say how much healer MP is impacted over that period assuming you do survive. I chose 20 seconds as a scaling time due to Rampart, but perhaps I could do an additional case for 10 second scaling.

Also how did you get to ~31% healing load reduced? I did some testing today and Shield Block + Shield Oath had my WAR taking 27% more damage than my PLD which would be significantly more healing load reduction. Sort of preliminary testing though so I'd like to see how you got your numbers.

The one near 30% @ 1500DPS includes burst abilities over time and excludes blocking. If you look at the first chart, it's circa 34%. I was working on closer to 5% of all damage reduced with shield blocking -- but you're passively reducing 9% of all damage with shield blocking? That seems like quite a bit more than any other estimate I've seen. Even if I assume that an additional quarter of enemy crits are pushed off the table due to blocking, that should amount to around 0.5%, which isn't nearly the gap. Do you have data on blocking rate and blocking amount? I would be interested to see them.