Dark Knight Megathread

[Kalaam]

Im being honest with all of you, TBN tied to damage and refunding itself if broken along the 15s CD giving me more opportunities to mitigate with it is what keeps me from losing my final braincell.

I also find it interesting that a fair amount of you scream in agony over DRK being a WAR clone and absolutely hate homogenization (which I agree), yet in the same breath in wake of the Endwalker mitigation upgrades you call for turning TBN just becoming DRK's Holy Sheltron on a 25s CD without cost, which is peak hypocrisy if you ask me

It's not hypocrisy in that case. It's giving even tools.
TBN could be upgraded a number of ways and still be unique, juste like others short mitigations are unique in their own way. Fight balances are based on tanks having short, flexible mitigation tools to use. If one tank doesn't have one, or a stricly inferior one, it won't be able to perform as well. It'll make it "difficult" but not in a good way. It's difficult because your job is weaker, not because it is more complex and lead to more satisfying payoff.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

It's not hypocrisy in that case. It's giving even tools.
TBN could be upgraded a number of ways and still be unique, juste like others short mitigations are unique in their own way. Fight balances are based on tanks having short, flexible mitigation tools to use. If one tank doesn't have one, or a stricly inferior one, it won't be able to perform as well. It'll make it "difficult" but not in a good way. It's difficult because your job is weaker, not because it is more complex and lead to more satisfying payoff.

I can see your point and maybe I'm initially harsh, but that is mainly because I cannot in good faith advocate for changing the basic concept of TBN in favour of becoming "even" to equivalents.

I can see appeal to have partial refunding upon break failure, but at its' core TBN should stay what it is. An upgrade akin to Holy Sheltron, Bloodwhetting, etc. could happen, however I'd suggest adjusting Oblation instead to have more impact or maybe rerelease a physical Dark Mind on a shared CD (Dark Dance), both to have additional decisionmaking and to not sit like a duck in fights with basically no magic damage.

The latter requires them to actually display damage types in damagetext, which has already been done by third-party plugin writers using the game's output to define the damagetype and thus the float text color with 99.9% accuracy. Leaving 0.1% for the case where damage becomes zero.