Quote Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur View Post
Which isn't actually helping mitigate the damage they take. Its kind of annoying that they can get away with this since tankbusters are spread out enough that Holmgang, Thrill of Battle, Rampart and Vengeance can cover every tankbuster without needing Raw Intuition. They would likely be content if Raw Intuition wasn't mitigation and it was the old Bloodbath.
Well, if it was NEEDED for them to have an extra 20% DR CD, then GNB would be unviable due to not only HoS only being 15% DR, but Camouflage also only being 10% DR (With a chance to parry for 15% reduction) and PLD doesn't have a ~20% CD akin to ToB/Camo/Dark Mind...

Since, you can only balance content around the lowest common denominator (I.e. The Tank with the crappiest defence tools)

That said, Tanks could probably do with fewer, but more potent defensive CD's. Given that Reprisal + Rampart + 30% skill + invuln skill + ToB/Camo/DM + short CD skill is a bit overkill for content which only deals actually meaningful damage like once per minute via TB's... Not even factoring in, that you actually get 2x all of these skills per raid due to having 2 tanks that can swap aggro...

Like, the only time where there's damage consistently high enough to warrant using multiple CD's... Is Trash mobs... Which are only found in Dungeons these days. Even then, many newer dungeons are hard blocking the path so people won't just pull 10 packs at once and AoE nuke down with CD's up and the plethora of oGCD heals available to Green DPS.

Since as it is at the moment, we have enough tools to cover a situation where you need to perma-roll a defensive CD... But incoming damage is designed to not require anything of the sort (Heck, I'm pretty sure in normal raids you can survive most if not all TB's without using a CD at all, only being Savage where CD's are necessary)

This is all before even factoring in OT CD's (Which to be fair, they have no hope of balancing around. Between their crummy macro system and reliance on letting people access content via Duty Finder, a scenario where OT's are required to aid the MT through a buster is a recipe for disaster)