The daze from +def sounds about right to me, I can only remember one night where I actually got dazed doing razorgore (and it happened about 4 times that night) other than that I basically always have my back to them and when I get hit I don't get dazed.

As for ossirian, yeah sometimes yuo can sunder when he's behind you due to his hitbox being pretty big. It's kinda like being able to melee ony when you're actually ~20 yards away, the space directly in front of you is still counted as being within the mob's hitbox so it works. Though I often end up running and having to jump, spin, hit sunder/heroic, then turn back and continue running.

Our MT allways turns around to get ready to run when he gets the "5 seconds to loctus swarm" warning on anub, and stands with his back facing Anub. He never gets dazed, ever. He has over 440 defence.

Some people mentioned that it might be crits from behind that dazes, and that having 440 defence makes it impossible to get dazed. But i noticed later on my priest that i got dazed without getting crit, so thats not right. But i am pretty sure defence has somthing to do with it.

Well, I think that the only affect defense would have on getting dazed would be that it increases your avoidance rate. That is the only confirmed effect that defense has, avoidance and lowering chance to be crit. It makes sense though, that if you are avoiding more hits you are less likely to be dazed.

Daze rates definatly vary with level, though. A 60 will very, very raraly get dazed by a level 32 mob (although it will happen occasionally). It'd make perfect sense for it to based on defense rather than level.

Strafe tank him in between crystals ;)

Interesting theory. I should test it out with different amounts of def when I have some time.

You should never turn your back to Ossirian: you can't parry or block facing away from him.

Yes, daze is a function of your defense relative to the attack skill of the attacker. I don't know the exact numbers but it's not too far off from crit if it isn't the same.

Two things:

1. Yes, defense skill affects daze. At 440 I believe it is, you become immune to daze.

2. Am I the only one that tanks Ossirian walking backwards? Obviously I turn around and run forwards on some of the longer runs between crystals that are spaced poorly, but on short and medium spacing I just walk him backwards, spamming shieldblock/revenge/sunder/hs.

I have the same experience, the only time he might ever get dazed seems to be when it's a "forced" daze from Aspect of the Pack.

That makes perfect sense and explains why when you ride your mount through a bunch of low level mobs, you never get dismounted... but when you do it through a bunch of mobs your own level, the chance of getting dismounted goes way up. (for caster classes, not someone with 440 def obviously)

Here's an oddity... on the worst Gluth attempt in the history of the universe, he decimated us as we were jumping out of the slime tunnel; the fall damage killed everyone but the MT.

It does work on fall damage indeed, but you certainly can die even in defensive stance. I cant count how many times have I died when rushing to MC (stupid lag...) even if I was in defensive.