Interesting Tank Research

[Chrono_Rising]

What the study doesn't get into is things like the usefulness of the mitigation. For example, when taking heavy damage at certain intervals (like tank busters or autos and aoes with mechanical damage) you will value that mitigation greatly, where as the mitigation from TBN is more smoothed out over the length of the fight. If you are using TBN nearly on cooldown, you will take on average the same amount of damage as the other tanks, thats what the data shows. Example, if a buster does 132k to a tank 10 TBN's doesn't equate to 1 hallowed ground use.

Whether or not that mitigation is keeping you alive more so than the other tanks was not studied/gathered. One thing which was painfully obvious was the extend to which tanks in general are not maximizing their defensive casts (not just dark knights this was clear on all jobs), which is also a conversation people should be having: mitigating effectively and not just for busters.

Its a good first step, but it certainly needs follow up.