Quote Originally Posted by Titancleaver View Post
Mitigation/proper avoidance is definetly a must for a tanking class, how did Blizzard solve this? They gave the DK's absorbation shields.
It wasn't just absorption shields. It was absorption shields *that scaled with incoming damage* (based upon how much damage you'd taken over the last 10 seconds). A static absorption shield based upon your own stats is no better than self-healing; it's simply a static number and has the exact same problems. To make it equal, it has to actually scale with incoming damage, rather than your outgoing damage or max hp.