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Originally Posted by wagorf
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how nice to have an experienced raid tank sharing knowledge here!
my question would be, what is the rule of thumb on when to use evasive vs. def? there may not be one but one that covers 90+% of the scenarios is good enough
for example gwurms in skfyfire, i find def to be more effective than evasive for some reason and it contradicts with my past experience
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Evasive will likely always result in lower total damage intake
on average. For raid encounters where mobs hit extremely hard and you have an established complete heal chain, defensive is preferable as it will more reliably keep you save from being 1-2 rounded. For such encounters, the biggest goal is to minimize the your chances of that worst case scenario and defensive holds the advantage on mobs that don't have nasty dangerous procs (ie like the mobs referenced by the OP in the original post).
On raids the mobs 'dps' isn't what kills tanks. Damage spikes kill tanks. Defensive negates this.