The Chosen damage reflection ability Dire Shielding (non mirrored and requires 2 tactic slots to make the most off) will in zerg vs zerg fights and keeps do far more damage than you can ever hope to do with OYG for instance, I think those situations are actually more important than scenarios.

I’m not entirely familiar with the Destro higher-level abilities as the highest I’ve played on that side of the fence is early Tier 2… I would assume that if the added damage from procs is being handled this way on other classes (which partly explains some of the crazy BW damage numbers I see often), then Mythic has done the same thing with the SM’s new ability and the Knight’s OYG!

You make some good points, especially regarding DPS guys not getting as many heals so they end up with a half-dozen corpse runs in a busy scenario. Though I would say that even with a pocket healer on both a DPS and a tank class, the tank class will obviously stay up longer as their survivability is significantly better = less heals required = less corpse runs, so in terms of return on investment, as a WP I’m probably better off dropping my HOTs on a tank and letting the RPs and AMs spike-heal our DPS guys. At least, that’s my take on it. :)

Back to the damage shield issue, though — could it be that the combination of reflected damage and the KotBS’s even higher survivability than most tank classes is a bit too much?

And again – any healed tank of any class can put up stupid high numbers in a scenario if he has a pocket healer. Less deaths = less corpse runs. Healers havent figured out that spam healing a DPS class is a viable strategy. Given equal healing attention a DPS class will out-damage a tank 99% of the time – even with blurring shock. The problem is, DPS guys rarely get as many heals.

I dont know about Knights so I cant comment on them. I did play a chosen during beta. Dont they have bane shield and some kind of damage aura too?