Tank Stances, Traited

[Reynhart]

A single cleave or swipe is not going to be fatal to any player, but repeatedly standing the area in which those occur will be. That is what i meant by "if they do not move away"

If you die by staying in front of a cleave, you deserve to die. And, again, DPS and healers are already OS by those kinds of attacks...

So, in your mind.. if it doesn't freeze or debuff, not moving out of the AoE and just keeping swinging because it isn't going to do any damage to you isn't ignoring a mechanic?

No, it's being a dick to your healer to save some pitiful damage.

And you can't tell me that you would still want to avoid it, because you wouldn't. You wouldn't have to put in the effort because the damage it does to you would be negligible, and the tanking community has already shown that if the damage incurred is negligible, they would prefer to dps over mitigate (that's how this whole discussion got started because tanks would rather have higher constant dps than higher mitigation at the cost of dps).

But by taking damage you could have avoided, you reduce the healer's DPS, who should do more than you if you have your tank stance up. And if you don't have the stance up, then you'd take the same damage from that AoE as you do now.