"Changing Tank Damage Calculation"

[Ashelia_Ferron]

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Content doesn't have to be old to skip phases.
Taking Thordan for example. He will automatically go into the "Leave arena and summon knights" phase if you push him to 70%.
You already mentioned Sacred Cross.
Killing the two knights faster prevents
1. More Holy Bladedances
2. Removes the "Sword Oath" buff, and eliminates the need to heal one of the tanks
3. Stops further double Holiest of Holies, resulting in easier time for healers.

And doing more damage allows you to burn him before some of the later phases as well.

And I guess it's "old", but A1S is still fairly relevant for the time being, and you can skip jumps with enough damage.


And it doesn't just apply to raids and trials. Even dungeons. The faster you can kill mobs, the less damage the tank takes because you're getting rid of enemies faster so you don't HAVE to burn through so many cooldowns/make the healer work.

The shorter the battle, the less damage you take as a whole.

I'm not discounting the fact that cooldowns, shields, prep, etc, is important, but killing things faster is a huge part to why the tank meta is to just have "enough" HP and then boost DPS to the max.

Though I agree that saying it's the "best" mitigation is a bit off, so i'll concede there. Still, there just isn't any reliable way to increase mitigation outside of cooldowns or healer prep other than killing stuff faster, since VIT accessories are, for the time being, not all that useful