Originally Posted by Mistaya
Alright here's a math question that's probably going to make me sound like an idiot.
My warrior friend in his tank gear has 16k armor and is sitting at 60-61% DR.
I have 30k armor and am sitting at 74-75% DR.
He says with defensive stance he's at 70% DR. I didn't think it worked that way but he's pretty adamant about it. Is he right? If warriors can get so close to the DR cap at 75%, what's the point of druids having retarded armor values? I shouldn't have to get double his armor for 5% DR... I thought the whole point of our armor value was to mitigate the crushings we are forced to eat. It doesn't really change anything but I feel a lot less useful if this is so.  |
He's very much incorrect. Defensive stance is multiplicative with armor's DR, so he effectively has 1-((1-.6)*.9) = 64% DR. Block occurs after DR though, so depending on the boss they can have anywhere from an effective +1% to +10%.
Druids aren't really meant to be the better physical mitigation tank. We are gimmick MT's, and superb OT's due to our threat.