The Blackest Night: What's good about it, and what's bad

[NobleWinter]

I always thought the relationship between TBN and Edge/Flood felt backwards. In my mind using Edge/Flood should proc a free use of TBN. So everytime you spend 3k MP to do damage you have the option to use your Blackest Night Shield as well unless Blackest Night is on Cooldown already. Then if the shield breaks you should be rewarded with a HoT. You would still need to save 3k MP to use Blackest Night but the damage would never be optional. Only the Heal over Time from the Shield Breaking would be in question and if the shield didn't break you clearly wouldn't need the HoT anyway.