What is the gear minimum for Denova?

People will argue this but every simulation I have come across for dpsing has placed balance significantly above infiltration. With that being said in similar gear infiltration in most simulations comes out as one of the lowest dps trees out there for all advanced classes.

Taunt is scalable and adds multiplicative threat to you every time you use it. So its basically the highest threat x 1.3 = new threat gained. It scales exponentially where everything else is additive.

In the PVE world, we Shadow tanks have such an advantage in so many fights over the other two types of tanks that adding a force leap ability to us would really be unfair to the other types of tanks. It would further begin to ask the question of why should we bring any type of tank other than a shadow? Maybe if it was something for the Infiltrator/ tree sure, but it is just to dang powerful for us as tanks at the moment.

580 with the thrashless rotation

As there is no real threat issue for us as shadow tanks once you hit endgame, go with +endurance for survival. For some info on stat values for us as tanks check out http://mmo-mechanics.com/swtor/forums/Thread-Sith-Assassin-Jedi-Shadow-Tanking-Compendium Hopefully that helps.