You listed the numbers as evidence that the DR on ironfur made it less valuable than the 15% from maul. It does not, until atleast 4 stacks of ironfur.
The numbers 11.85%, 6.78% and 4.38% are utterly irrelevant to the discussion at best, and an attempt to misrepresent the DR provided by ironfur in the context of maul at worst.
Either you completely misunderstood that these numbers were not representative of the relative DR value of ironfur stacks and thought that by posting them you were proving that ironfur was weaker than it is, or you didn’t misunderstand that and did it intentionally.
Your claim that you “were just showing the difference in physical damage reduced per stack” makes me think it is the former, and you just didn’t realise that what you posted was dumb. As the saying goes, don’t apply malicious intent to that which is adequately described by ignorance.
Then, given your self-proclaimed intelligence is clearly an important part of your personal image, as per:
it’s no surprise that you felt compelled to pretend like it was nothing.
So, we have clarified, that iron fur is infact better than maul for DR for damange which it applies to? Great, glad we agree.
Maul would have to generate a shield big enough to cover ALL attacks for the duration of the ironfur cast to make up the difference. On a standard boss swinging once per 2 seconds, that means it would have to be 4 times as strong as you claim. It’s not.
Earth Warden also works in tandem with ironfur and maul, so saying “that’s what earthwarden is for”, implying one or the other, is intellectually dishonest. You can take both.
And a list of times where anyone has claimed that Ironfur is better than maul on damage that ironfur does not apply to is… where?
True.
Your opinion is trash.
You will now that they don’t use the same resource to apply. Since that wasn’t the context of the discussion, who cares?
It’s not remotely complicated, so similarly to before, either you’re being intellectually dishonest or you’re an idiot.
Ignore pain gives shield per rage at a linear rate. Whether you apply that shield in quick succession or with more time between is irrelevant to the damage reduced by that rage. You cannot cast ignore pain twice in a second and block more damage per point of rage than casting it twice 5 seconds apart. Assuming your shield is being entirely consumed and not timing out, every point of rage spent on ignore pain blocked an equivalent amount of damage. To put it another way, only one instance of ignore pain will ever apply to one damage instance.
The same is not true of ironfur. You can press ironfur multiple times in quick succession, and those multiple instances of ironfur will apply simultaneously to the damage that occurs during their duration.
TL:DR; In defensive value Ironfur stacks, Ignore pain doesn’t.
Oops: Almost forgot to edit this in, since you are tapping away down there!