Tank healing is to high

[Shurrikhan]

Heart of Stone actually has aged greatly because it was upgraded to Heart of Corundum. Absurd statement on your part.

And where was TBN's upgrade? You're saying the level 70 skill has "aged poorly" because it's not a.... level 82 skill (a la Bloodwhetting, Holy Shelltron, or Heart of Corundum).

That is an absurd statement.

What you need to look at instead is specifically Oblation's value versus the difference between Heart of Stone and Heart of Corundom, Shelltron and Holy Shelltron, or Raw Intuition and Bloodwhetting.

The issue you have with TBN at 82 onwards...

...is that people can't stop conflating things. It's still the same skill you had at level 70. No more, no less. Camouflage was not nerfed by staying at its present power across 84 levels; neither has TBN's by remaining the same for 20.

That DRK's lv82 addition (Oblation) is weaker than, say, Paladin's lv82 addition (Knight's Benediction and Knight's Resolve) is a separate (and the only) mitigation issue. The four jobs' mitigation were pretty balanced before. Giving three of them stronger bonuses, then, than the last does put that last one behind, all without having to retroactively nerf its pre-lv82 kit upon its reaching lv82. Shocking, I know.



As for TBN itself...

TBN should just be free

This can only result in either of two things: Reduced flexibility (higher CD) and reduced gameplay interaction (removed DA) as you remove its more negotiable and knowledge-rewarding constraint, or DRK's damage must now be balanced around popping a TBN every 15 to 25 seconds for a free 1104 to 1840 extra potency per minute. Neither outcome is good.

And if it has to cost MP you remove the CD completely so it can be used on demand.

Please tell me you understand how much cheese that could apply to, say, DSR, when two DRKs could thereby simultaneously TBN every non-tank.