I wonder why people are using Nocturnal though, I mean the shields are without any synergy (like the scholar ones - and no I'm not qqing therefore, it's prolly better that SCH has the upper hand on that behalf) and are most of the time gone in 1-2 hits. Normally you can't spam AB to make it worth the GCD. Compared to that the HoTs are much more reliable.

Plus the fact that Nocturnal & Galvanize won't stack wheras Diurnal & WHM HoTs do stack.

I might be going off topic here, but what are your thoughts on Nocturnal? Are you using it? Why?