A little tip for a WAR trying to learn

[Graiggy]

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).

See this i was not aware of. that is a huge help. my guess is i thought the difference was because of increased dmg resist. but must be it was the self heals. Ill have to have a talk with my healer. and see if i cant get him to get a better heal rotation.

[Thela]

See this i was not aware of. that is a huge help. my guess is i thought the difference was because of increased dmg resist. but must be it was the self heals. Ill have to have a talk with my healer. and see if i cant get him to get a better heal rotation.

No worries, many healers are not aware of this either and think you are a bad tank taking unnecessary damage for not staying in defiance which is just not the case. That being said, there are of course situations where being in defiance is helpful. You do gain a larger hp pool and thus can survive longer if taking heavy damage, plus you get access to self healing for the same scenario. And of course the 20% damage reduction from inner beast is very good for tank busters, but if you can survive it with other means its generally preferable because every time you use inner beast is 1 less fell cleave