Quote Originally Posted by jmoak View Post
Which ironically shows warrior above dark knight at max parse, aka the "ceiling".

Thrill of battle is definitely mitigation, or have you forgotten it gives you 20% max hp increase which effectively makes it similiar to a shield like TBN. Not to even mention its multiple other effects which makes the skill very powerful.
It's actually behind in damage and mitigation. And you say thrill is as good as TBN, yes, but should I remind you that you can use 6 TBNs for one Thrill use? Thrill is used more as a heal than anything and now that it's a conva too, people will save it for healing intensive parts. Basically still relying a lot on the healer.

And sheltron is better because you won't use it on cooldown like you would theoretically use RI. So it's basically always up when you need it AND lasts longer. The thing is also, nascent flash is cooldown for yourself, I.E if the healer is ignoring you, you can get back 30K hp which is good, but you have to choose between that and raw int. You very rarely use intervention at all. Like if a healer dies and the other healer is out of mp so you intervention him so they have a better chance of living kind of rarely. Or you use it as an off tank for the mt but then you don't need sheltron because you aren't taking damage. You see the issue here yet? A war has to pick and choose and the pld doesn't have to think.

The only thing thrill is good for, in my experience, was for when you wanted to stack it with other cooldowns for really powerful busters like in ultimate. Other than that, it was used as a dps increase. Every single savage turn in SB I rarely used Thrill as a cooldown for mitigation, it was purely for upheaval in inner release. This was mostly because busters don't happen often enough and if they do, they usually require tank swapping allowing for your CDs to come back. Now that raw int is 25 seconds, thrill won't see uses other than healing autos. I would know, doing the extreme trials I use it out of reflex because of upheaval or for the sake of using it.

I'll make a future post about war in savage, though I know it won't perform as well as the other tanks in many categories unless they buff some aspects of it.