Cover + Cooldowns??

[Ehayte]

I have not confirmed it myself, but I have heard that whatever damage the covered player would have taken gets transferred to you, without allowing you to mitigate it ay further. So it looks like cooldowns would not work for that damage (neither should shield oath, by following the same logic).

I THINK you DO mitigate it by your defense (on your armor) but not by your abilities. So its not like you would take 6k from a melee attack from a boss like a WHM would if you are a covering a WHM.