Dark Knight : Just another mitigation tank

[SarcasmMisser]

Welllllll we actually solo tanked T5. So there goes that.
T1-4 was perfectly doable with a WAR.

In 2.1? You just made a claim that you did 1-5 in 2.0 as a war and were caught flat out lying. 1-4 was doable because there were no tank busters, and 1-5 would be doable by virtue that the war was a OT and did little actual tanking. I took a war for 1-4 and it was doable but clearly a handicap. Yes you can solo tank T5 as a war once they implemented those fixes that ditched the idea of a life steal tank.

[Altena]

so much salt

Eh I couldn't remember if it was before or after, I knew it was close to the patch. Makes little difference. You are completely brushing over the fact that I have agreed countless times that they "tried" blood tanking with WAR, yes - but they didn't do it well. IB was literally its only significant lifesteal skill on a single target - and there was no overflow mechanic or anything that provided some buffer. If they were to simply increase your max HP proportionate to IB's overheal for a short duration, it would work fine against tank busters. The issue was that there just wasn't enough lifesteal to make it their primary source of tanking ability, and at the time Defiance didn't offer a passive healing buff.

Blood tanking can easily be done. WAR was just an extremely poor example of it.