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Originally Posted by 7thGate
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Evasive mitigates 25% of the damage you would take, on average, but with variance. Defensive mitigates 35% of the damage you take, with no variance. The rule of thumb is that Defensive is better unless:
1) If there is a proc on successful hits that is nasty enough that the procs are doing more than 15% of the total damage you're taking.
2) You are in a situation where the 3 minute lower cooldown is relevant. This is generally in XPing groups, where evasive mitigates more damage over time because when used on cooldown it is active for a larger % of the total time fighting, but could also be for any sort of very extended combat situation with few or no breaks.
Which is pretty much in line with the OP's suggestion.
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Evasive - You have a 25% less chance to hit and a 25% less to be hit
Defensive - You deal out 35% less damage, you receive 35% less damage
This is why evasive is used for things that are more dangerous because of their
proc on hit mechanic and not for just their massive amount of melee damage.
At one point on live they made AoW hit for a flat amount each time, i think 1100, so the game was to simply not be hit, and at that point a warrior would rather use evasive because you could not mitigate any hits.
If you would like to go down the rabit hole some more
THIS post is a great jumping off point to understanding the titanium client. However, keep in mind it has been changed a lot and I personally have no idea how much or how little it has changed from this post on the emu forums.
Regardless it's still great info that will put you in the mindset of what is really going on and in the end will make you a better player.