Why'd we lose these?

[IntrovertAnt]

But I have a couple instances of "I don't have anything ELSE for this!". Like okay, Stun, Rampart, Reprisal and... okay I'm out of of Mitigation.

Are you not using Arm's Length? That is prime mitigation to use for trash pulls.

[Kabooa]

Are you not using Arm's Length? That is prime mitigation to use for trash pulls.

Updoot for awareness(heh)

[MaraD_]

i like to constantly work for defensive/survival options, and hate they removed so much mitigation.
they've had periods of "everything is on CD" before, in prior expansions, depending on what we're talking about, but this feels the worst yet.
I loved anticipation, just because it was on such a short CD, and such a long duration.
I'd love to have something equally as weak, but constantly up. (more like, 2 abilities, you alternate between at all times)
Something like a 5% healed convalescence mixed with a 25% chance to parry.
Then a 10% convalescence mixed with a 15% chance to parry. (they cant stack, but dont share a CD)
and just alternate between the 2.
And of course have your potent "Tank buster incoming" mitigations. Either ready for every TB, like the 30s ones, or on longer CDs, where you alternate between them. (doesnt matter which, but u can do both, if u set different ones as playstyles for different tanks)

but yeah, the current tanking options just dont do it for me.

[Brynhild]

By coincidence, the first dungeon I ran as the new style Paladin was also Brayflox's Longstop, just yesterday. I didn't feel much of a loss with Convalescence, Anticipation, and Awareness gone. I was never really convinced of their usefulness in the first place, and it just seemed like more busywork to deal with and also gave another reason to the Healer to yell at you when you didn't use them. No big loss to me. If the Healer couldn't keep up in a couple places, I just popped a Mega-Potion and that lasted just long enough for him to catch up.