Quote Originally Posted by Kaedan94 View Post
I specifically didn't include any skill that any tank can use, such as Convalescence and Awareness. All tanks can use them, so trying to use them in argument is ridiculous.

@Giantbane I didn't include healing, because healing isn't mitigation. And DRK's self-healing is very good anyway.
Mitigation is two things. First, it increases your eHP. This lets you take more damage before you die. This is pretty obvious. Second, mitigation means you require less healing to recover from those hits. If you are hit by a 2000 point hit with grit on, you only take 1600 hp of damage. Thus it takes 1600 hp worth of heals to restore the damage lost to that hit. We've already covered this with Grit vs. Defiance.

Now when you take thrill of battle, this will increase your eHP, and you cast convalescence at the same time, it reduces the amount you need to be healed. The effect, is very mathematically close to what rampart or shadowskin does (~17% vs. 20%). So for all intents and purposes, you can use these two abilities *together* and it will work almost as good as shadowskin.

It's not that DRK & PLD can't use convalescence, it's that they don't have an ability like thrill of battle to pair it with.