Dark Knight Megathread

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

I'd just go 15% magic mit and 10% shields.

That would be a very slight gain in magic mitigation for damage spikes/single hit cases (129.41% vs 125% effective HP), slightly weaker at recurring magical hits + regens taken into account (Akh Morn and other multi-hit attacks) and a rather meaningless HP shield vs physical/unique damage scenarios.

For single hits, the 10% HP shield would provide a relative +10% effective HP where 10% physical damage reduction would be +11.1% (100% / 0.9 = 111.11...%). Since the preferred application would be against multiple attacks over time (10s duration) like dungeons, you'd have more value out of 10% physical reduction than a 10% HP shield, especially when taking regens and heals taken into account.

Hate to say it, but your suggestion would perform poorly against physical damage, especially in presence of TBN at Lv70+.