Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
Mathematically you do. You can deny that all you want, but when you tanked it at lower iLvl either you mitigated more or you received more healing. The 12 hits come out over a span of 18 seconds. You ain't healing yourself through it, even on WAR, without proper mitigation. The total damage dealt by it to one tank before mitigation is 275k total, roughly. You said you used Rampart at i470. That's believable. By your own admission you dipped to 12k HP. Without further mit/heals, at entry ilvl, you would have died.

The only real bad thing about that fight's design is that the auto attacks don't continue to tick for most of his mechanics.
Actually, it's around 240,000. Each hit is roughly 20,000 not the 23,000 you mentioned previously. At least going through old PoVs. This assumes zero mitigation. I never denied requiring more mitigation at a lower ilvl, I disturbed how much. Basically, you'll actually need some healing whereas later on, you can get by with almost nothing. Going back to my own example, I only dropped so low because the Scholar literally wasn't healing me. As I said, he slapped a half gauge Fairy Tether and ignored me. At those lower ilvls, Asylum, Regen and Warrior's passive healing could handle it entirely given they healed for roughly 12-14k. Now you'll over mitigate because it's prog but the fact you have every single CD available only trivializes this mechanic further. Being able to slap primarily passive healing—only one being a GCD—at i450 isn't what I'd describe as a threatening buster.

Furthermore, you're severely underestimating Warrior's self healing. Inner Chaos under Nascent Flash will heal you for upwards of 25k; Equilibrium roughly the same if not higher. With Warrior having 130k HP at i450, you can heal through it almost entirely by yourself.

I could go on a further tangent about how poorly designed E3S is. Like the fact it's a glorified normal mode until second Tsunami. But at this point, we're sliding way off topic.