Hello everyone,

I have got a question to all of you Paladins out there who tanked O3S.
Ever thought about constant tank swaps to maximize mitigation on Critical Hit-tank buster with Awareness?
Or did you OT and asked yourself how to help your MT mitigate the tank buster damage?
Have you ever used Cover to achieve that?

A story behind those thoughts: MT (PLD) in my raid group got his PC crashed and was gone for good, through he said he might come back after some weeks. A DPS in our group agreed to swtich to tank (WAR) for the meanwhile. So, I had to either DRK or PLD, my first pick was DRK. Mitigating tank busters in progression appeared to be rather difficult, caused by many deaths, resulting in less heals and lower mitigation, as MT or OT had to take over and had many skills on CD.
So I thought of maximizing mitigation by using as many defensive CDs as possible (from both tanks). With DRK and WAR, the only solution was tank swap. As DRK, I picked up both first adds after 2nd tank buster on me (with Awareness, ofc) and tank swap, because DRK has awesome magical damage mitigation with Dark Mind. And both the white orb and the dragon used hard hitting magical attacks. Our progression became easier, but still wasn't safe enough and I felt pretty insecure in my DRK play.
I switched to PLD. I remembered that our MT would return in a few weeks and I tried to think of a solution to make this whole 'tank swap' thing easier than before. Then Cover came to my mind.
I became OT, and used Awareness, Cover and Sheltron every second tank buster on MT. Cover itself provides 20% dmg mitigation with the new trait, block another 24%.
This solution made our progress easier than ever and both tanks could make full use of their CDs on boss and adds at the same time. Also pretty easy to teach, should our MT ever return. (In the end, he didn't.)

What do you think about this tactic?
Does this sound rather difficult? Would the extra mitigation be worth it for you to learn this strategy?
How often do you use Cover in general (just curious)?