Tanking feels unimportant

[Bhearil]

My opinion on this is that a lot of people either don't think to or don't want to use TBN as it's intended. Which is to say, a DRK should be keeping one eye on the party list at all times, looking for opportunities to absorb incoming damage via a well-placed TBN. Given that's it's based off of the targets HP, chances are high it will break from any mechanic that goes to a healer or dps. Since it's a dps neutral skill for the DRK as long as it breaks, you stand to purely gain by using it as often as possible to absorb as much damage for others as possible. Any bit of healing that can be saved is another GCD that can be used on Glare or Malefic or Broil. From a pure combo-based perspective DRK is very simple, but the meta game for DRK is less about combos and has shifted to be more more about resource management via MP, Blood and cooldowns. A lot of people haven't adjusted for that yet.

The idea in theory is good, problem is that unless someone has derped hard no party mechanic hits so hard that TBN is needed or is just expected to aoe bomb heal after which will just make healers overheal the bubbled person anyways. Unless tankbusters while raiding as offtank either you dont need to use it almost at all, or only use it when someone has screwed it BADLY, but RDM have the very same issue with their chain res and we know how bad is to rely on people derping badly to be useful. Small mistakes do not need TBN, big mistakes outside training shouldnt be happening on the first place, thats why SMN having a instant res each 60 seconds is better than RDM that can chain insta res outside of meme trainings or crappy dungeon runs, because more than 1 dead person per minute spells disaster

You cant put the situation for example where a player is loaded with vul stacks that needs TBN to survive because those vul stacks shouldnt be there or at worst shouldbt be so high