Quote Originally Posted by Leonus View Post
In all technicality you are correct. However, when comparing the effects of Shield oath to defiance, it is.
Honestly, the number of times the difference will result in needing an extra heal to be cast are so small, and the amount that last heal needs to heal for are so small, this difference is irrelevant.

Use Storm's Path once, BOOM, difference gone.

Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
You can actually prevent Tumult from doing more than 3 ticks of damage by silencing him, so it's not like the building Tumult really presents a problem either.
Indeed, and you don't really need to silence it anyway. The only time Tumult is going to kill you is if you only have 3-4 players left alive. At that point, you deserve to fail.