Quote Originally Posted by Thela View Post
Unlike PLD & DRK tank stances, Defiance doesn't actually affect your damage intake in any meaningful way. It gives you a slight amount of parry rating based on your beast gauge (up to 10%) and more hp and that's about it. Mainly the reason to go into defiance is either for higher enmity or access to inner beast / steel cyclone (self healing) but rarely for reduction to dmg taken (outside the 20% dmg reduction for 6 seconds from inner beast for tankbusters).
A lot of people don't understand this part right here. Probably the most important part. It does affect our damage dealt, but unchained being separate CD from IR now allows us to handle that more elegantly.