Dark Knight Megathread

[Claire_Pendragon]

DRK needs a significantly bigger pool of HP as a buffer for using HP as part of your damage mechanics, between 25-75% more than other tanks, either in form of a low CD ability or passively.

While I dont think a "direct" HP requirement on skills is the best way to do things (exceptions being things like superbolide) in the example you gave, theres other ways to do it. such as having a buff that triggers when you sacrifice HP, which increases heals received for a bit. Another is to have a "pool" of.. oh, idk... lets say "Blood" that you can also use in place of HP, if you saved up enough. etc (you already covered HP drains/selfheals).
but im of the opinion HP should only be consumed if its towards defensive skills that easily out weight the cost of HP. (besides superbolide, TBN could cost 5% of current HP, grants 25% shield. basic healer regen probably would top u off anyways, if u absolutely needed that 5% hp to survive something even with TBN up.)

"Wasted HoTs / heals" are by nature wasted and not something to base on, but YMMV.

side note: With the current designs/options in game, id say this statement is more than reasonable, but with a little imagination, id say you could base an entire class on "wasted regens" (which i have a tank class dedicated for this in my own game)

Again, I am all in for using HP as a resource, but spending it for survival is either really good (Superbolide) or not worth it, depending on the conversion.

ooc, what would be the point in making it "not worth it"? superbolide is an example of using it perfectly.