Dark Knight Megathread

[Dracosavarian]

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).

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.

:: 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".

Because it’s not as strong as Holy Shelltron, Bloodwhetting, or Heart of Corundum.

TBN is not Mitigation. It’s Nullification. It’s handled differently by the formula.

A shield that crumbles to dust with a single hit or two, does little to stop the onslaught of multiple attacks over a period of time. Once that shield breaks, it’s ability to stop incoming damage ceases entirely

Mitigation that is % based and lasts over a set duration remains for that duration.