Issue with TBN

[kazzel120]

Which other tanks have defensive abilities that cost a DPS resource?

When used correctly TBN costs you nothing because not only did you get the 30k+ hp shield you also got an EoS or FoS after the other tanks mitigation skills are pathetic compared to how much TBN can negate.

Only people i see who complain about TBN being a bad skill are people who only look at it costing 3000 mp and blow it every time its up because omg those auto attacks lol.

Use it right and TBN is a huge reward not a risk.

[DemonicNeko]

You're being dishonest by calling it a cost. It's a risk. If you use it correctly, TBN is every bit as 'free' a mitigation source as Sheltron, Heart of Stone, or Raw Intuition.

The reward for taking on that risk is that TBN is immensely more powerful as a defensive tool than any of the other tanks' equivalents. It only hurts you to minimize and handwave away those arguments, or to - for instance - pretend that when I said "[TBN] can potentially offer 80-100% mitigation on a 15 second cooldown", what I actually meant was "If you use it against damage that can't break the shield, it's 100% mitigation, and let's all agree not to talk about the drastic difference in cooldown time."

When used correctly TBN costs you nothing because not only did you get the 30k+ hp shield you also got an EoS or FoS after the other tanks mitigation skills are pathetic compared to how much TBN can negate.

Only people i see who complain about TBN being a bad skill are people who only look at it costing 3000 mp and blow it every time its up because omg those auto attacks lol.

Use it right and TBN is a huge reward not a risk.

I am in full agreement with both of you. Part of being a tank is learning the boss mechanics. Yes I am not perfect and I have popped it for the wrong boss mechanics. I did not sit there and complain about the ability. I simple said. "Dang it. I messed up." Then moved on with the fight. I knew that the wasted 3000 mp was on my bad not the games bad. I love TBN because right now. Tanking is very brain dead. We have a stupid simple rotation Pop cool downs for extra survivability or dps. It not like we have to really manage any resources in boss fights. If your going oom as a tank. Then your playing the class wrong.

Heck we are not even managing activations buffs on gear like you have to do on many other mmo. Honestly tanking has gotten so brain dead easy. At this rate we might be looking at a single button press and let a script do all the tanking for us next expansion.
Sad part is. I know people will still complain about how that system would be to hard and punishing.