It works? Afaik bosses have enormous amounts of weapon/spell damage so reducing it by a couple hundred is not gonna affect the amount of damage they deal to a noticable degree. I use absorb magicka on my tank.

I have no idea how much weapon damage bosses have, but a two hand infused weakening enchant plus nightblade power extraction is like 650 reduced damage.

BejaProphet wrote: »

Out of curiosity, can you tell us how precisely you tested it?

He just added up the numbers. 200 from Power Extraction and 452 from the infused Weaking glyph = 652 weapon/spell power reduction when active at the same time. It's not insignificant, but typically a tank is still using Crusher on their backbar because the net benefit of reduced armor is rated much higher vs reduced incoming damage.
A support role is all about optimizing how buffs and debuffs are given out. It's easier to reduce enemy weapon damage with a skill like Power Extraction since tank skill bars are flexible. It's easier to use a monster set like Vykosa to reduce weapon damage + still keep full value Crusher if the situation calls for it.

That being said, plenty of tanks use Weakening on the front bar if they choose not to use Absorb Stamina/Magicka because it does help a little bit.

@Cortimi

Ok, that’s what I was afraid of. Your test is going to be horribly skewed.

Weak creatures have very low weapon and spell power. So when your glyph debuffs them it knocks out a disproportionately high amount of their damage. Your glyph will seem massive.

But when you go to any creature that actually matters, your glyph will barely impact their damage at all. You probably wouldn’t shave off even half of a percent of a trial boss’s damage. For a quick comparison go do your same test on a world boss.

@Skelfish I was asking how he tested, not how the other guy did math. But I sincere thank you for your patience in explaining something so basic. 😃