Sacred Soil

[Sleigh]

(part 1)

Here's an example hit from Wild Charge with a Sacred Soil, while I adlo'ed the marked target:

(Damage 6690+8104+4944+1455) + (Adlo 1040) = 22233 damage total

Without the soil it would have hit at around 24700 damage, which is a savings of around 2.4k which makes it equivalent to a lustrate on a tank with 9.6k HP so I consider it a fair use. For Electric Burst it will DEFINITELY be 100% better than a lustrate. I would rather save the mark'ed schmuck the 10% of his HP however because of the floor tick.

15s of resonance/autos/main head from T11 did 31675 damage

If I would have used sacred soil, I would have prevented ~3.1k, which is better than a lustrate. Not using it for this purpose also allows me to get the WAR who is taking the main-head-hit topped off better, so the usage of both is a little sketch. I have managed to used it for Seed of the Sea(?) and reached the tanks with it but I think just succor would be fine for that.

You can't look at it as total damage of an attack and what soil mitigated; there's an extremely large difference between a single target's total damage getting mitigated and raid damage getting mitigated. Raid damage is typically extremely periodic and has large breaks before and after, and healing the raid back up from a total of say 25K damage is easy with M2/Succor and fairy heals. A tank taking X amount and measuring the mitigation is a bit more applicable since they are going to continue to get bopped on, but the situations where Soil > Lustrate are very rare.

That 2.4K you mitigated on the Wild Charge is a couple extra ticks of M2 via hitting every target involved, which will happen anyway. It's just a wasted stack unless they were going to die from the hit or the hit + a floor tick they may or may not take depending on your strategy.