Obtainable Optimum Tank Stats

[TehScat]

(02-24-2012 04:34 AM)Dadvocate09 Wrote:  Do we know which of these apply for Guarding? For instance, when I Guard someone, I take half of their damage. I expect my damage reduction from Armor to apply to that half.

Does my Defense apply to negate my half of the damage?

Does my Shield apply to mitigate my half of the damage?

The half-damage absorb only works in PvP, and I'm sure you'll find better stats to stack there than defensive stats. Its fairly safe to say that armour applies, but the other stats I'm unsure. The best case I've seen for the others not applying is that the half-damage never crits, and crit is done on the same roll as shield, so if it can't crit then it can't shield. Without combat logging its nigh impossible to prove, but I doubt any have missed either, so that would mean defense is out too.