DRK redesign details explained

[Freyyy]

I honestly don't even understand why TBN even has a short-ish duration in the first place since it's just a barrier, it could just be like 30s since we only benefit from it for a set amount of damage anyway. It's not like a damage mitigation %, it's literally just an amount of unhealable bonus HP. It should just be up until it breaks so that they wouldn't have to worry about lengthening the duration whenever they want to increase its strength.

Edit : After posting this message I realized that it would probably be seen as being a bit busted since we'd just reapply it as soon as it breaks and use Dark Arts procs for our mana spenders all the time and we'd take next to no damage outside of tank busters, so I just wanted to add that you'd still need MP to use TBN anyways, so while you'd be able to use free MP spenders while having TBN up, it'd only last for maybe 4-5 consecutive TBNs before MP starving (3x3000 MP + one or two extra TBNs granted by MP regen abilities during that time). We'd still have a bit of downtime with no TBN at all so we'd still take damage, it could even make the job a bit more engaging since we'd have to account for tank busters so we wouldn't be just blindly using back-to-back TBNs all the time.

[Bhearil]

I honestly don't even understand why TBN even has a short-ish duration in the first place since it's just a barrier, it could just be like 30s since we only benefit from it for a set amount of damage anyway. It's not like a damage mitigation %, it's literally just an amount of unhealable bonus HP. It should just be up until it breaks so that they wouldn't have to worry about lengthening the duration whenever they want to increase its strength.

Because they are trying to reward proper usage of the shield instead of "use and forget". Problem is that if you buff its power you need to increase its duration as well or it will restrict its uses since it wont break now where before it worked

[Freyyy]

Because they are trying to reward proper usage of the shield instead of "use and forget". Problem is that if you buff its power you need to increase its duration as well or it will restrict its uses since it wont break now where before it worked

I don't think it would make it "use and forget". I edited my last post to add on to this idea. But yeah they probably want to make it feel like active mitigation, but I think that the more you increase its power, the further away you move from active mitigation since you still need it to break, so you'll need to increase its duration anyway, and it'll end up feeling more and more passive.