Try to predict Nerf/Buff/QoL of 4.2 Tank Edition

[Claire_Pendragon]

Similar here. I leveled up DRK as an option to help my static, but after realizing we had no other source of slashing it wasn't really worth trading slashing for TBN utility. So I just stayed War.

You'd also be trading Shake it off for TBN as well, which also isnt worth it imo.
(In O4S prog, me and another were constantly dying to raid wide dmg, and TBN can only save one of us. I was the last person to win upgrade drops, so I was still getting 1 shot by meteors and the like, even with passage of arms, healer shields, full hp, reprisal, and addle up. (plus VIT melds) 75%of the time. So with the shake it off change we could both be shielded, and anyoen who wasnt topped off, or missed the aoe heals/shields has another chance at life.)
I doubt i need TBN/shake it off now, but our WARs current shake it off is easily more useful of the 2.

The closest you're going to find to a coherent argument in favour of Slashing/Piercing/Blunt debuffs is the idea some people seem to have that it's supremely important to the game's sense of depth and challenge that you open every fight, every add spawn, and every post-downtime reengagement with 2-3 GCDs where you're missing 10% of your damage.

Every other argument is inconsistent at best, and more frequently, just completely incoherent. There's just really no other defence - the most likely explanation for their current incarnation is that SE flat out did not think things through.

You argument sounds like you didn't think things through.
You're accusing the fights design as the problem, but start off accusing the idea of having damage type debuffs is the problem.
And of course wrap up "its a combo of both".

Then technically neither is wrong, just wrong in combo.
You can keep either, but need to change the opposite to fit better.