Tank stats in PVP

Each of the Tanking trees has atleast one talent that procs on Shield/Defense normally to provide class resource. In PvE this works, in PvP it does not; too many player abilities are Force/Tech .

The solution is relatively simple:

• Allow tanks to Shield Force/Tech attacks for half* their normal absorb level.
• Allow tanks to deflect/dodge attack for half* damage instead of full avoidance.

* The exact % can be balanced out such that tanks are not raid bosses, but do benefit from tanking gear and talents in PvP.

I dont see the issue most people have with this mechanic.. here is why

most of the skills complained about will drastically reduce your energy when spammed, so if you have a good healer(which is necessary in group oriented pvp) they are going to have to use their "auto attack" as most people have labeled it in order to regen and try and noob spam you again, which is where the defense/shield/absorb kick in.. at this point your prolly low in health and if your any other class can be killed easy with the basic attack but your not because your defense and shield/absorb gives you time to kite for heals.
Most of the dmg types are mitigated fairly heavy through your armor except for elemental which if you run tank spec with Ion shield and put points into tactics line for power armour your elemental mit is at 9% which goes up to 19% with a sage or shadow in group.

I have almost full champ gear and can hold off 3-4 people with just 1 good healer EASY and ussually end up killing all of them unless they have a tank aswell.. alot of this game is a gear check and people who have equal gear to me have a VERY hard time killing me, a tank should not be invincable but they should be harder to kill than any other class which a fully geared tank is.

The point is anyone with high expertise and a healer could do the same. As a shield spec vanguard I'm only bringing to the table 9% damage reduction through my talent points, which is great but all damage specs can bring some damage reduction through talent points AND bring in much more dps through their properly itemized gear and the synergy their talent trees have with their attacks. Tanks just have a few more % of damage reduction but a lot of wasted skill points and gear itemazation points that would be best ( in pvp ) spent elsewhere.

I have my stockstrike reset all the time in pvp which is a shield proc, ya know why?? because once the moron skill spammer runs out of energy he has to use skills that apply to my shield ohhhh so hard to understand... im sorry but I would never die if shielding worked on everything even if they did take the say u have 40%+ and half it, it would still be too op... perhaps its just my class as a Vanguard and the amount of dmg reduction passives I have that allow my other mits to mix properly with the shield absorb but as it is I can absorb an insane amount of dmg and does my shield proc as much, no but thats only because your playing other people who understand how bypass other classes strengths