Besides 5% being a pretty useless amount of damage absoption for a caster class like a druid, if I get nuk ed or hit big big time from these mobs that hit for 600 or more it isn't helping me much. The real killer for me is that it is not a click item, it has to proc, so that means I have to be using the weapon to get it work, and usually its when I am all buffed up and then that annoying extra spell guard buff turns on when I don't want it, taking up presious buff space. This would be nicer if it were click activated or worked without a buff, just on all the time, and added to your stats like a resist stats are calculated in.
But to waste 1150 LDON points
not to have it proc when you need it to
to have it proc when you don't want it to
to take up an buff slot
I was stupid to get this aug and it cost me 750pp for the solvent to remove it to sell it back.