Class changes and balance in Game Update 1.3

No, because that's not correct. 5.24% damage from each mob attacking you means that you take 5.24% more damage. That's how percents work...

With your numbers, say a mob normally hits you for 1000 damage, with three of them hitting for 3000 total. Post-patch they now each hit you for 1052.4 damage, for 3157.2 total. That's...you guessed it (or not) 5.24% more damage. 15.72% more damage would mean you're taking 3471.6 damage, which you didn't.

We are also striving to make all tanks hit the same survivability targets for Game Update 1.3. Testing shows that the self-healing generated by Shadow/Assassin tanks is too powerful after the armor adjustment they receive via Combat Technique/Dark Charge. This armor adjustment should have brought Shadow/Assassin tanks to lower passive survivability levels than the heavy armor tanks, with the self-healing they provide making up for the difference. However, this armor adjustment was making them passively just as good as the heavy armor tanks, with the self-healing taking them a bit beyond our survivability targets. Rather than hit armor or self-healing too hard, we’ve opted to adjust both by a much smaller amount.

The healing generated by Combat Technique/Dark Charge has been reduced by approximately 50%.
The healing generated by Harnessed Shadows/Harnessed Darkness has been reduced to 8% in total (down from 12% in total).
The armor provided by Combat Technique/Dark Charge has been reduced to +115% (down from 150%).

Thank you! Can't wait to see how the changes to my Commando stack up.

As for the complaints about shadows, I'm PVE, and my guild's main healer says he loves shadow tanks. Call me crazy, but I trust Bioware to do the math to make sure a shadow can tank just as well as a guardian... and if they do go too far with the nerf bat, I trust them to acknowledge it (like they just did with Commandos).

My next character's either going to be a shadow or assassin tank. I'm eager to see for myself if it works.

I'll call you VERY crazy.

They couldn't balance it in over three years of development but they can now???

riiiiiggggghhhhhhtttttt

Was only meaning that although its a 5% nerf to Damagae mitigation it has an exponential affect the more targets involved in a multi mob tanking situation.
5% more damag against one mob may not be a massive nerf, but when appllied multiple times as a multi-mob tanking situation means that the increased damage also makes the Assasssin the worst OFFtank and no more fit for that role than a main tanking role.

Assassin/shadow armor in with dark charge was half that of heavy armor in tank stance. Also take into account that dark charge healing proc is only around 464 every 4.5 seconds (103 HPS)