Warrior Tanking

[Paikis]

Sorry but your Defiance tooltip states that it REDUCES DAMAGE and INCREASES HP by 25%, and then some people choose damage over HP.
Like, srsly u guys.

This was a valid tactic in 2.0. As Mysteltain said, it increases your self-healing, as well as helping with agro and parry reduction. The 45 STR from a set of Gryphonskin was about 15% extra damage (and thus healing) as well as at least 1% parry. Well worth the loss of ~400HP at the time.