Quote Originally Posted by Crater View Post
Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is the most insane shit I've ever read. Have you not been using TBN in conjunction with other mitigation in big dungeon pulls where you're taking easily 3-5x as much damage as it takes to break one? Did we just solve the mystery of why a bunch of you guys think Dark Knight is bad in dungeons?
Honestly, I'm speaking mostly from the experience of trying to heal DRKs. Even paired with TBN, Oblation does not nearly stand up to the buffs Sheltron/HoS/RI get at 82, and you definitely feel that difference trying to keep them up; any other tank honestly feels like they're doing half the work for you. Once TBN's down it usually feels like the DRK is hardly using any mitigation at all and they just drop like a stone, and that only gets worse on a Barrier specialist, even popping all my CDs.

If you're not on a WHM, healing a DRK feels awful.

Though with some of the DRKs I've been playing with, it's entirely plausible they weren't using any mitigation other than TBN like you're asserting. I was a bit too occupied trying to panic-barrier to keep them out of WD to double check.