Invulns: Problems and Solutions

[Absurdity]

I think invulns are a great way to incentivize bringing one tank over another. If you bring a WAR, you just don't have to think anymore about tank busters in E8S. I like that.

There's also a bit more to invulns than just "use them as much as you can to trivialize tank busters". It's definitely not a thing in every encounter but let's take E3S as the most recent example.


Leviathan does 4 tank busters over the whole fight which hits twice, the first hit applying a vuln that makes you unable to survive the 2nd hit. You negate the first two with both tank invulns, share the 3rd and now you have to think about what your respective invuln does for the 4th.

The last tank buster happens shortly before Black Smokers. If I remember correctly on GNB you have Superbolide ready again even if you used it on the 2nd buster and you definitely have Holmgang ready on WAR.



Now you could use Superbolide on the buster but Black Smokers is coming up soon and you might want to use it there so your healer doesn't have to worry about you for 8 seconds while they are busy with mechanics, which means you might want to share the 4th buster as well.



On warrior however sharing it means you have to use a defensive there and Holmgang isn't gonna do jack for Black Smokers since it deals continuous damage to the tanks. This means as a warrior you probably want to Holmgang the 4th buster and consequently save all your other defensives to help with damage during Black Smokers. This means you would Holm the 1st Buster, Superbolide the 2nd, share the 3rd and Holm the 4th. Now you go into Black Smokers with both tanks having all their defensive CDs and your co-tank potentially also having their invuln, making the mechanic a whole lot easier to heal.


If we would just use them on cooldown you could holmgang the 3rd buster if you used it on the 1st but this would mean you 100% have to share the 4th which means less mitigation for Black Smokers.