Quote Originally Posted by VenKitsune View Post
errr no... not really. it costs you a load of MP and so its not really "on demand" as something like rampart is. you could be taking loads of damage from a boss and be like "damn time to pop a cooldown" only to see you've run out of them and you dont have enough MP for TBN. meanwhile a WAR can just switch to Defiance and use IB, and a PLD can use Sheltron, Clemency or any of its other plethra of cooldowns.
Just because you can't manage your mana doesn't mean it's not up on demand. And did you really compare it to IB and Clemeny? Skills that should be avoided as much as possible because they destroy your DPS?
I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about.