DRK + War

[Giantbane]

Str down is FAR less damage mitigation than 10% all damage reduced. And on top of that the DRK is bringing 10% int down. So really that's a wash.

I don't know about *FAR* less damage mitigation. For instance, lets take WAR's berserk. This raises attack power (not all damage) by 50%. In practice, this tends to equate to around a 40% damage increase. So it's safe to assume attack power (STR) will account for something like 80% of the outgoing damage (very roughly). By that assumption, you can probably guesstimate ROH's effect at around 8%.

So 8% physical reduction all the time vs. 10% all reduction at MOST 67% of the time (good luck with that), whose availability can be influenced (dark dance) but is ultimately not 100% reliable to be up when you want it. I'd personally go with RoH when you're worried about physical attacks.

Reprisal can be a good choice vs. bosses you can parry when you're worried about raid wide magical attacks, as it stacks with SP and delerium/DK. Course it also depends on the boss attacking fast enough so it's likely that it will proc, and that you can anticipate the attack well enough that you can ensure reprisal is up in time. But that's really the only way that it outshines RoH.