that is why we data mine...

I have, some take advice well and improve. others exact opposite, thus this thread.

7k is not worth it, better to use mitigation augments that complement whichever tank class of choosing.

I concur, it makes it difficult to reach high end mitigation. But I am referring to stacking endurance augments...

please stop.

Unfortunately, From my recent experience, classic encounter buff does not apply to EC.

On Kephess, intial three droids that have to be downed, have a calibrating shot buff that needs to be interrupted. With 3.0, interrupt times were increased. Which makes merc's interreupt cooldown time exessive compared to other classes. This part of this battle was already tight enough with interrupts before 3.0. Now, its not fun running this operation with an 8 man group.