Dark Knight Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

In addition, TBN has no scaling. Once you blow through your 25% hp, that’s it. You’re spent. You have to wait for it to come off of cooldown. In comparison to all of the other damage mitigations which are % based. Meaning, if there is a second attack, those damage mitigations are still there to help keep you alive.

Right, but let's say you similarly have a 25% mitigation over that whole duration. Over that duration, you'd need to absorb damage enough to have otherwise killed you (a quarter of 100% of HP) in order to mitigate as much over that whole duration as TBN could have mitigated in a single hit (again, 25% of your HP).

The only times, moreover, in which the follow-up after TBN's consumption would be vitally important are the times in which, if not for that mitigation being frontloaded, you'd already have been killed (i.e., before that further scaling could be put to use anyways).

Outside of overhealing made unavoidable (and TBN isn't powerful enough nor survival needs tight enough to cause such), the span doesn't matter, only the total mitigation + healing.

:: I don't know why people undervalue TBN on the sole basis that it isn't a percentage. That's like treating Trick Attack as having more value than is clearly stated in rDPS just because "it's a raid buff".