new update notes made me go.......

[NiteWolfe]

<font face="Arial" size="2"><span>- Brigand and Swashbuckler defensive stances now have increased mitigation percentage from 15% to 18%.- Monk and Bruiser defensive stances now have a minimum deflection percentage of 7.5%.- Monk and Bruiser defensive stances now have increased mitigation percentage from 15% to 20%What happened to the tanks? we still stuck with the crapy 15% boost in defense stance?Oh well back to playing</span></font>

[swordfel]

i think its because brigs/swashys are sort of like semi-tanks and can only wear up to chain armor they needed some extra mit ot let them tank a bit more. the avoidance for brawlers/bruisers isnt really unexpected considering that theyre avoidance tanks, and the extra mit for them is probably because they can only wear up to leather. +15% to plate armor is still miles ahead of +18% to chain or +20% to leather.<div></div>

[aias]

<P>From what I understand, brawlers were getting smacked really hard when tanking heroic instances too.  Hopefully, this helps them out a bit.</P> <P>Also, is it still true that there's no differentiation in terms of the quality of our defensive stance, i.e. adept1 vs. master1?  Do they both give the same 15% increase in mit.?</P>

[NiteWolfe]

yes its true my lvl 10 zerker has  15% at app1 my level 70 serker with adept3 is 15% still

[FightGame]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> NiteWolfe wrote:<BR>yes its true my lvl 10 zerker has  15% at app1 my level 70 serker with adept3 is 15% still<BR><BR><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>this really pisses me off.  Even more so since I just paid 40pp for the defensive stance a few weeks ago.

[Bladewind]

All of the other stance benefits scale with quality, though.  That said, I still wish the % bonus to mit had small scaling effect as well.