The Big Blue Feedback Thread

[Lyth]

Most fights are scripted, so good tanks know when tankbusters occur down to their timestamps. It's not uncommon for a tank who is optimizing for difficult content to pop a cooldown 18 seconds in advance, knowing full well that the last two seconds will catch a tankbuster and allow the cooldown to be back up early enough to catch the next one. Also, historically, abilities like IB used to require you to anticipate cooldowns even at baseline levels of play.

I think that if you're trying to do something optional but fun, there definitely should be a timing challenge attached.

[Liam_Harper]

Most fights are scripted, so good tanks know when tankbusters occur down to their timestamps.

That means you have to know the script and timeline though. It's not really intended that you fail every tankbuster during prog until you figure out the exact timing in advance. Even most Savage tankbusters have generous cast bars so you can react with instant mitigation.

If you wanted challenge you could put a few mitigations on casts, but still have enough instants to survive a tankbuster. That way the average player or player who is learning a fight can react with them but a veteran tank is rewarded further.