Tank Balance

[Phoenicia]

There is never a way to ignore the damage penalty.

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You two are arguing simantics, lol. You both are correct.

What Carbonx is trying to say is that WAR and DRK have ways to "mitigate" the damage penalty of their tank stances while PLD doesn't. It doesn't have to be completely negated, or otherwise, "ignored" to be considered mitigated.

A more correct way to look at it is to say that DRK and WAR have constant damage buffs to increase their base damage while PLD doesn't. PLD's offensive stance damage comes entirely from the stance itself.

But as long as, while in a tank stance, you do not get the full benefit of your damage had you not been in said stance, you are not completely "ignoring" it. Defiance + Maim is still less damage than no defiance and Maim.

And again, Defiance WAR deals more damage than Shield Oath PLD because of Maim, not Unchained. Unchained is just the icing on the cake. We could argue WAR deals more MT damage than DRK because of Unchained.