Shadow wall needs an additional effect.

[MeeYow]

Correct Wings, I am assuming full on defence hence the comment on storms path.

I am working on the pretence that there is still a valid statement to make regardless of meta if one class has higher long term reductions AND buster mitigation in full out defence AND greater offence in full out offence that serious changes need to be made.

According to my prelim numbers using IB on cooldown is about 7% mitigation (aka about 33% uptime after infuriate/zerk etc on the 2.4s GCD, I think the numbers actually come out closer to 40% uptime after those, accounting for Fracture and the IB cooldowns themselves). So using storms path and stance independent cooldowns would still give WAR level mitigation with PLDs cooldowns. Of course WARs don't do use path in practice because they have more useful options.

Which leads to the valid argument 'this matches PLD but they chose not to because they have even better things they can do!'

Basically the aim of my calcs are to shed light on the 'but PLD has much better mitigation' misconception, since only tank busters can be theorycrafted quickly.

Long term mitigation isn't hard it just takes a long time to type in all the numbers and make good approximations for things like thrill/convalescence which combos make e an ffective mitigation cooldown by raising both the healing received and HP pool, which PLD and DRK cannot do, calculating in the long term effects of conv for the other classes is not as easy as I am not as familiar with healer numbers.

Could take the time to theorycraft approximate dps values for each class in each case as well, but seeing as live letter is in 5 days the willpower is wearing a bit thin :3